Full Coverage: Population

26.09.2006 “Vega” Humanitarian Organization from Skopje strongly opposes the idea of the local self-government in Suto Orizari Municipality to change the name of the “July 26” elementary school into “Arben Bajrami” Elementary. VEGA condemned the already adopted decision of the Local School Board that the name should change.

13.09.2006 Dengue has raised its head once again and medical authorities warned the public of another possible epidemic. The Epidemiological Unit (EU) of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) has declared a National Dengue Control Week from September 18-23 to avert any major outbreak

12.09.2006 This year's report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, highlights the diverse experiences of women migrants and emphasizes the need for migration laws and policies that safeguard the rights of women and support their needs for health care and other essential services.

11.09.2006 The issue of education of the Roma population is eminently political and will demand greater practical engagement by the state and its institutions, believes the National Roma Centre from Kumanovo.

08.09.2006 Roma Scholarship Foundation (RSF) concluded that the ongoing election activities in Montenegro confirmed, once again, that Roma and Egyptians are not involved sufficiently in public affairs and social and political life.

07.09.2006 Governments must do more to address the human rights violations and lack of opportunities that force women and girls, who make up half the world’s 95 million migrants, to leave their homes, while countries need to work together to make migration safer and in particular stamp out human trafficking, according to new reports issued today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

04.09.2006 Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rucker today welcomed the commencement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of specialized medical treatment for lead toxicity for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of the Roma-Ashkali-Egyptian (RAE) communities.