NEWS OF THE DAY: Parliament by consensus adopts amended Law on prevention and protection from violence against women and domestic violence
The Parliament at today’s 32nd session adopted the amended Draft Law on prevention and protection from violence against women and domestic violence. Furthermore, MPs adopted the amended draft Law on balanced regional development with 50 votes “for” and 23 “abstentions”. The debate ended for both laws at the previous continuations of the plenary session.
The amended Law on balanced regional development was adopted with support of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, which was in the hall and abstained from voting. Nikola Micevski, Coordinator of parliamentary group said that they would abstain from voting, which would allow for the law to be adopted, outlining that three of their amendments to this law have been accepted, thus approving the legal solution.
The Parliament had a quorum for work, but the ruling majority did not have enough MPs for voting, so for some of the legal solutions and reports for which the debate ended there will be additional voting.
STATEMENT OF THE DAY: Zaev: The Holocaust must never be forgotten or repeated
“May the fire of the memory of the Holocaust shine forever, which we mark every year on January 27, in memory, honour and glory of 7 million Jewish mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, friends and neighbours – who lost their lives in fascist camps of death”, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook profile on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“On this day, and every other day, to repeat ‘Never to be forgotten, never to be repeated’, and to keep the memories also of our 7,200 fellow citizens who from Skopje, Bitola and Stip were deported in the wagons of death to Treblinka in Poland. For the memory of them to always remind us that silence can be an accomplice to evil and that our duty is to oppose every form of fascism, fanaticism, racism, xenophobia and genocide in every situation”, wrote Zaev.
CIVIL ACTIVITIES
CIVIL, together with the citizens, in action against hate speech (part 1)
Hate speech in our country is mainly a subject of interest of some civil society organizations that appeal, call for, carry out monitoring or campaigns for strengthening public awareness.
One of the most widely accepted definitions for hate speech, which reflects also in the Macedonian legislation, is that it is public speech that expresses hatred or incites violence against a person or group, based on racial, religious, sexual or other orientation and features, such as gender, national, physical and etc.
CIVIL is one of the most successful and loud civil society organization in the efforts for reducing the consequences of disinformation campaigns, whose main characteristic is hate speech. The organization has been for years conducting activities for monitoring, research, citizen education and strengthening public awareness.
FLASH NEWS
Today marks January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Holocaust must never be repeated to anyone. Remembering it and the six million Jews who were victims, and also those who survived, is an obligation, but also a reminder for humanity of where hate speech can lead to, intolerance, discrimination and how little it takes to destroy an entire nation. It is a warning to humanity to understand that Europe as we know it now should not be taken for granted, but that we should all protect it, fighting for everything that is important to us and for what we believe in, fighting also against nationalist tendencies, defending tolerance and understanding, are some of the messages of the participants in the commemoration that was held online today in organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Public group” these days has again become a current topic, after it was revealed that on the social network Telegram more than 5,600 members of the group are sharing photos, profiles from social networks, personal data, addresses and numbers of girls.
In the past 24 hours in the Covid centers in Skopje, 19 new patients have been hospitalized due to complications from the coronavirus. A total of 262 suspected and confirmed Covid-19 patients are being treated in infectious disease wards in the capital, announced the Ministry of Health.
Minister of Health Venko Filipce today announced that the British variant of Covid-19 has been detected in the private laboratory of the Zan Mitrev Clinic in Skopje. Deputy Prime Minister in charge of fight against corruption and crime, sustainable development and human resources, Ljupco Nikolovski, together with Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Otto Graf, Director of the Central Registry, Maria Boskovska Jankovska and the Director of the Financial Intelligence Office Blazo Trendafilov, today promoted the new National Beneficial Ownership Registry.
More than 14 thousand students have registered for state graduation exam, which points out that they want to take the state graduation exam, said today at a press conference Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska, adding that the Ministry and the government have a legal obligation to organize it, with the purpose of implementing the legally guaranteed right of students to take the exam.
translation: N. Cvetkovska
