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The State Department released the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which covers the period from March 2007 to March 2008. |
The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday. |
Impunity continued for war crimes committed in 2001 and in cases of torture and ill-treatment. Little progress was made in the reform of the police and the judiciary. Discrimination against minorities, particularly Roma, continued. |
The situation for asylum seekers in Greece is alarming. Thousands of asylum seekers live under unworthy conditions, and without any forms of legal protection. The chance of receiving protection in Greece is close to zero. Transferring asylum seekers to the country is therefore irresponsible. |
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Washington, DC
March 11, 2008 |
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2008 |
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) issued a report Wednesday in which it criticizes Macedonia over ill-treatment of detained persons. |
In Macedonia, state discrimination in favour of one religious confession – the Macedonian Orthodox Church - is a dominant factor, Forum 18 News Service notes in its religious freedom survey analysis. Alongside this is active discrimination against other religious confessions, especially if officials see them as a threat or as "non-traditional". The main target for state officials is the Serbian Orthodox Church, but smaller confessions such as Baptists, Hare Krishna devotees and Jehovah's Witnesses are also discriminated against. The major problem faced by most confessions is their inability – due to inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement of the law and planning procedures – to build, expand or obtain buildings for worship. Unclear and discriminatory legal provisions continue in a new Religion Law, due to come into force in May 2008. The Macedonian authorities show few, if any, signs that they are willing to protect the religious freedom of all Macedonian citizens. |
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The Helsinki Committee continuously monitors the detentions in the past few months/years[1] and regretfully notes that in most of the cases the principle of presumption of innocence, which is one of the basic postulates in the criminal procedure, guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and the European Convention on Human Rights is not respected. |
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| The first early parliamentary elections in the Republic of Macedonia were undoubtedly the worst organized elections in the history of this country. |
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| Globally, the regulation of the issue on promoting the rights of the child has made the most significant progress in 1989, when the General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This convention, accessed and ratified in the Republic of Macedonia in 1993 was an extension to the Declaration of the Rights of the Child as of 1959, which in record time was accessed by the necessary number of UN state parties and entered into force only one year after its adoption. Although it is one of the most widely accepted international instruments in the field of human rights, the implementation of the Convention is still a serious problem in many countries worldwide, including the Republic of Macedonia. |
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The domestic violence is one of predominant criminal behavior in many societies which brings by itself destructive consequences over both the primary victim, i.e. the woman, and the secondary victim that is the children.
Prepared by: Marija Slzdanovska |
Consequences and protective measures of children against further abuses and their physical and sexual maltreatment
Prepared by: Maja Simonovska |
The Republic of Macedonia, which is, as from its independence up-to date, a state in transition. As a result of both the economic crisis and the change of the social and family values, both being accompanying occurrences during the hard period of transition, the juvenile crime and the problems in the behavior are increasing...
Prepared by: Pavlina Zekic |
The so-called “Decade for Romas` Inclusion 2005-2015” was signed (in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the 2nd February 2005 by the following states: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (former) and Slovakia.
Prepared by: Vahid Fazlija |
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