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Cultural heritage without frontiers
 How can we work together?From 20 to 22 September 2006, a workshop took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, attended by a group of NGOs from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia. It was organized by the Swedish foundation Cultural Heritage Without Frontiers. The regional development workshop took place in the beautiful building of Zemski Museum in Sarajevo, which has been completely restored and renewed with support from this foundation. |  |
CIRa
A three-year jubileeOn 25 September 2006, CIRa (or, The Institutional Development Centre) celebrated its third birthday. It was a working celebration, in fact. A lecture on EU pre-accession funds was given by the organization’s managing board, that is, its president, Mr. Nafi Saracini. | |
From the Louvre Museum to the Museum of Macedonia
In touch with the classical art – an exhibition for everyoneThe exhibition “In touch with the classical art”, from the Louvre Museum in Paris was opened in the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje on 21st September, aimed, above all at the blind and people with impaired vision, but also at everyone who wants to touch the exhibited sculptures and relief. | |
Our open competitions and tenders
Who should help the victims of domestic violence?Is it necessary to make a coil out of each tender invited in Macedonia, difficult for someone to uncoil it? That is what happened with the open competition of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy announced on 18th May 2006 for support of projects for taking care of victims of domestic violence. Two months after the open competition was announced, the Commission for Cooperation with Citizens’ Associations decided that according to the fulfilled conditions, the most appropriate and with most points is the Women’s Organization of the City of Skopje, which in the next six months would receive 51.500 denars every month for realization of the project. | |
Open Gate / La Strada is organizing
Quiet auction for the victims of human traffickingOn 20 September 2006, the NGO Open Gate / La Strada, organized a humanitarian auction of artistic works for the victims of human trafficking that are sheltered in their refuge. | |
Views
Happy holidayYes, that’s right. 28th September is International Information Access Day, known by the slogan: “I HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW!” This year it has been celebrated for the fourth time and it has been our first real celebration: the Republic of Macedonia has had a Law on Free Access to Information of Public Character (LFAIPC) since this year.
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Can the civil sector in Macedonia die out?If we look back for several years, there was a question raised among the civil society organizations – What is going to happen when the foreign donations “dry out”, what is the main source of income going to be? Are we going to find alternative solutions to replace them? Will that mean that a number of civil society organizations are going to stop working? What is going to happen to the civil sector in Macedonia? These are only some of the many important questions that have been often asked.
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