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 The Decade of Roma Integration startedThe year 2005 started most intensely when it comes to the biggest minority in Europe – the Romas. On 2 February, on the initiative of their countries and organized by the World Bank and the Open Society Institute, the prime ministers of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania met officially at an international conference and signed the Declaration on the initiative “The Decade of Roma Integration”. |  |
International Roma Decade (2005-2015) started on 2 February
Better life for the most marginalized minority in EuropeRoma Decade 2005-2015 should be a turning point for 12 million Roma people, who are the poorest minority in Europe, being constantly on the margins of the social currencies, discriminated in many countries, beaten up on the streets just because of their darker skin colour, the only minority in Europe still living in ghettos. The International Roma Decade started officially on 2 February with the conference at the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. | |
Interview: Jessica Cook, regional representative of Aid to Artisans
People find themselves producing artisan itemsWe chose to work in Macedonia because of the Macedonian tradition in artisans, because of the works, because of the mingling of influence of history and other cultures in the Balkans that are seen in the Macedonian artisan tradition | |
Changes are occurring
Who stole my cheese?This is a story about 4 little beings, which have human characteristics. Two of them are mice, and the other two are little “humans”. All four of them face an unexpected change, the cheese that is necessary for their survival is gone and they are forced to wander through the labyrinth to find it.
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How to refund the Value Added Tax?
Taken from the Law on VATFrom the implementation of the Value Added Tax until today the civil and other international organizations are taking activities to refund VAT. What is the legal frame and how is it regulated? As an answer to this question we transfer part of the Law on VAT. | |
Intellectual disability and employment
Fight for bigger participation in societyThe day centre for accepting people with intellectual disability is situated in the shopping centre Biser in Skopje, in which the users start coming at 7 o’clock in the morning, time when the other citizens of Skopje hurry towards their working places, schools, kindergartens. Before nine o’clock, the users whose age limit is over 16 years, can be seen buying part of the necessary products for preparing lunch, at the nearby market. | |
Views
Be ready!The situation in the region with regard to the civil sector in the countries can be improved only with making a net of the civil organizations and with the mutual acting in big projects in the region, with an aim of its renewal and development. It’s interesting that in the past period in Macedonia an endless number of projects were realized that really helped for the development of the civil society, even though I think that there’s a need for more activities that should contribute for much bigger development. | |
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