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 The water stress is spreadingFour days after the first presentation in Cape Town, UNDP in Macedonia presented the Human Development Report 2006 at the beginning of November, entitled “Energy, poverty and global crisis in waters management”, according to which our country is in 66th place in the world, among the other things with a high index of lifestyle and low index of enrolling children to schools in comparison with the Balkans countries. |  |
Society’s relation to drug addicts and HIV/AIDS patients
Does everyone have an opportunity for a dignified life?When we talk about violation of human rights, it sounds terrifying that someone is taken something which belongs to him with his birth, as everyone has a right to a dignified life. However, with the violation of human rights someone’s dignity is taken away and very often his right to life. Not having access to health services, social insurance, taking away the right to work, stigmatization and isolation are some of the violations of human rights that drug addicts and HIV/AIDS patients suffer.
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Interview:
Maria Dahle, Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation from Oslo, NorwayMs Maria Dahle visited Macedonia on the occasion of promoting the idea for “Human Rights House Foundation” in Skopje. We used this occasion to talk to her about the concept of such institutions, their role in the societies they are established, about respecting human rights in the regions where they operate and, certainly, about her expectations from the Macedonian “House” | |
An anniversary
Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human RightsOn 10 December 1948, in the first years of the long expected peace after the Second World War, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | |
Q & A
Proposed amendments to the Law on citizens’ associations and foundationsThe members of the Civic Platform of Macedonia (29 civil society organizations) and other 26 civil society organizations have addressed an open letter to the members of the Macedonian Parliament. The reasons were the proposed amendments to the Law on citizens’ associations and foundations submitted by the Government to the Parliament in October 2006. What did these 55 civil society organizations ask the members of the Parliament? | |
Concepts
Trust and attitudes to the civil societyIn the previous issue we started presenting parts of the publication “Trust, responsibility for social issues and charity in Macedonia”, published by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation. The publication is, in fact, a report made on the basis of two questionnaires and the results of four focus-groups. The questionnaires and focus-groups have been carried out by the Institute for Sociological and Political-Legal Researches. The publication in PDF format is available on www.mcms.org.mk. | |
Views
Macedonia has become a ghettoVisa, forget about it! This is a colloquial phrase which incorporates in itself two very powerful theses. One of them is - who needs, visa, why such humiliation and being treated like an inferior citizen at the embassies? And the second one – forget it, we don’t need visas. I had a rare opportunity to work for the AEGEE-Europe executive board in Brussels (which is the biggest student organization in Europe uniting 240 academic centers in 42 countries). | |
Tracing an impressive project
The buffalo’s, too, support the sustainable development in the village of DebresteThe power of the fast information flow and the possibility to check them at the very spot is nothing new in the world as well as in our country. However, the exciting thing this November was that when tracing the information regarding an unusual project for protecting the cultural and the biological diversity in order to develop the rural areas (implemented by the Centre for Education, Environment and Nature Protection “Biosfera” from Bitola), | |
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