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Civic demonstrations against the war in Iraq
Give peace a chance
The appeal of few NGOs - Human Rights Committee from Helsinki, MCIC, OSIMF, Peace Action, Peaceful Civic Initiatives' Board, and European Social Forum - has met with a favorable response among the Skopje citizens.
On 15 February this year, they went out on the streets to express their protest against USA military intervention in Iraq. Hundreds of citizens of all ages, nationalities, different ethnic communities, as well as many Europeans and Americans, protested in front of the USA Embassy in Skopje, in front of the Macedonian Government, the Parliament and at the square Macedonia and said that they all equally disagree with the violence and that they share the desire for peace, no matter which part of the world is concerned. Protests against the war in Iraq took place in about 600 cities throughout the world. Citizens of the world made appeals against "bloodshed for oil", against the violent US military policy, and according to some estimations such global civic peaceful action has not been recorded since the war in Vietnam in the sixties. M. I.
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 Hand in handSeveral weeks ago, I was one of the participants from Macedonia at the "NGO Days" in Zagreb. Even before I had seen the manifestation, I was wondering what will it be like, will it be different from our NGO Fair "Forum of the Civil Society in Macedonia" that took place at the end of October last year, organized by the MCIC, OSIMF, ISC and CRS. We were together at this manifestation, and, from what we had seen, we could be proud to be better organizers. |  |
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Independently, more coordinately and more aim-orientedDuring the society transformation into pluralistic democracy, at the beginning of the ‘90s, one of the heralds of the new system was the appearance of a large number of non-governmental organizations dealing with women issues. Together with the ones, which had been formed in any shape by the former system, this large number of new women non-governmental organizations created a good basis for eventually solving the issues of the women’s social status. | |
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