UWOM

For thousands dialogs

Representatives from several Macedonian citizen associations discussed together with some Parliament representatives, political parties and local authorities and with Bodo Hombah, coordinator of the SouthEast Europe Stability Pact. The meeting was held under the motto “Thousands of Dialogs” and it alluded to the need and readiness to discuss and solve conflicts and misunderstandings through the means of dialogue.
It was agreed upon the need of dialogue in three directions: economic, political and security, said Savka Todorova, President of the Union of Women Organizations in Macedonia (UWOM), which, participated at the meeting in the function of an NGO contact-person within the Stability Pact generic relations work group.

Petition to Kofi Annan

The petition to Kofi Annan, signed by more that 2.500 citizens from Skopje, Macedonia and foreigners staying in our country, was initiated by UWOM as soon as the extremist armed groups attacks started. It was also set on the Internet, and therefore signed by another hundred representatives of citizen associations and individuals.
Within its activity for peace, the Union of Women Organizations in Macedonia, in co-operation with the Ecology Society “Opstanok” continually organized quiet and peaceful protests at the City Square “Macedonia” in Skopje, until the Government officially requested that all citizens should restrain themselves from public protests and gatherings. 

Information Centre Menada

The Information Centre Menada was established within the framework of the UWOM activities in order to direct people displacing from this town, as a consequence of the Albanian terrorist attacks from the surrounding villages. The Menada Centre activists directed the people, helped them to accommodate, and conducted an activity for providing humanitarian aid for women and children who escaped from Tanusevci and are temporarily accommodated in Cerkeze, as well as for women and children from Tetovo who were given hygiene packages.

So far, at the Menada Centre in Tetovo, 1.500 displaced people called for help and about hundred citizens from different towns in Macedonia offered help and accommodation.