CIVIL within the frames Freedom Festival organizes a panel discussion entitled “Census: Between Politics and Statistics” on Friday, December 11, starting at 3 pm, at the Park Residence Hotel.
The panel will be held with the physical presence of the participants, with strict adherence to the protection protocols from Covid-19. Participants in the panel will be Doncho Gerasimovski, former director of the State Statistical Office, Apostol Simovski, current director of the State Statistical Office, and Xhabir Deralla of CIVIL. The panel will be moderated by Diana Tahiri from CIVIL.
The last census in the country was conducted in 2002, while the attempt for a census in 2011 was infamously interrupted due to the politicization of the process. The new government plans a census in April 2021. Tensive and politicized discussions on this topic have already been launched, and with an open panel discussion, CIVIL will contribute to the need to leave politics outside of statistics.
The conference will be broadcast live on the Facebook page, as well as the YouTube video channel of CIVIL, which invites the media and all those interested to follow it and freely download the content resulting from the conference.
The event is organized within the frames of The Freedom Festival, which started on November 25, when the organization celebrated its 21st anniversary. The festival period also includes the International Day of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) and the International Anti-Corruption Day (December 9).
The event is part of the “Europe is our home” project, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Freedom Festival is a multimedia event within the Civic Lens project, supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (USA), as well as the Civica Mobilitas Program, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
