About a hundred people gathered at today’s protest against the Agreement for overcoming the name dispute, in front of the Macedonian Parliament. Familiar iconography, with familiar standpoints and demands for resignation of the government, support for Ivanov and against a referendum for the resolution of the dispute. Nationalistic shouting...
“For CIVIL’s recent report on the local elections, I offered an international human rights perspective on the elections. If you haven’t read the report, I encourage you to do so”, stated Heather Roberson, expert on human rights and the Balkans, at the public event “Alert: Free elections, a (non)...
Introduction Local elections held in October 2017 in the Republic of Macedonia have been taken as a very promising sign for those concerned with the status of human rights not only within this small country, but throughout the Balkans. In their conduct, they have been described as relatively free...
With noticeable excitement and energy, with the idea to show and prove himself as a leader of a big party that has still not lost its power, as if his first appearance in front of “his” people was his last, or, at the very least, was decisive for the...
Today is International Children’s Day, and it is celebrated every year with various events, in order to remind societies that children also have rights that must be respected, but the reality is totally different. The fight for full respect of children’s rights has to continue every day.
CIVIL is organizing a 120-minute public event at which, once again, in an enlarged and detailed form, it will present recommendations for reforms in the election system, on June 5, 2018, at Hotel Continental, starting at 1.00 pm.
The anniversary of the establishment and start of the new Government is in today’s focus, on the occasion of which Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held a press conference in front of the Monument to fallen fighters, in the Government’s courtyard.
The name and Macedonia’s entry into EU and NATO still remain current topics in the public. But what will remain in the focus in the following next days is the reconstruction of the Government.
Five years ago on this day, Tomislav Kezarovski was arrested and five months later was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for the case “Liquidation”. “I want to stress that what happened to me should not and must not happen to anyone, to no citizen of Republic of Macedonia,...
CIVIL – Center for Freedom organized a panel discussion titled: “It’s about the name”, with Afrim Gashi from BESA and Jove Kekenovski from FRODEM, as part of #Perspectives 2.0. #Perspectives 2.0 is a series of multimedia events of CIVIL with panel discussions, statements, interviews and presentations dedicated to the...