Full Coverage: Macedonia (FYROM)

28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

27.04.2006 Macedonia won the 2005 WITSA Global IT Excellence award for computerization and wireless internet in its schools, informs Minister of Science and Education, Azis Polozani.

20.04.2006 Civil NGO will screen four documentary films, under the joint title “My First Shot”, on the language and culture of arms, filmed by children and youth from Skopje and Tetovo. The screening will be held tonight (April 20, Thursday), at the Children Theatre Centre in Skopje’s Old Bazaar. The screening starts at 19:30 hours.

19.04.2006 Lina Kosturova-Unkovska, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Crisis Action, has worked on post-conflict stress and trauma treatment, as well as community development through activities designed for children, since the start of wars in former Yugoslavia. The interview was taken from Gragjanski svet newsletter.

18.04.2006 The Union of Women Associations of Macedonia (SOZM) held a workshop under its Women Can Do It in the Media Project. The workshop, held yesterday, concluded that the medi play a key and decisive role in the creation of opinions and information in the field of gender equality, but they first need to increase their internal gender sensitivity.

17.04.2006 How could it happen that today, at the beginning of the 21st Century, in a country that pretends to be (actually claims that it has always been) European, we have attempts within the institutionalized psychiatry, to “treat” homosexuality with hormonal therapy? How can a person, certified as competent by the official system, believe that homosexuality is a biological condition, an illness, that can be treated as physical aberation?

17.04.2006 Last weekend, April 15-16, 2006, the third Install Fest was organized by Free Software Macedonia, at the facilities of “Narodna Tehnika” in Skopje. This year’s edition, in addition to installation of free software for the visitors, indluded several other activities: workshops, lectures, debates...

14.04.2006 The Constitutional Court of Macedonia decided that the Members of Parliament will retire in accordance with the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance, just like all the other citizens of Macedonia, and annulled a series of provisions from the Law on Members of Parliament Benefits and Privileges that it determined unconstitutional.

13.04.2006 On April 3, 2006, the Youth Education Forum organized a public debate “University Enrollment 2006”, with the aim to raise the question of university entry policies for this academic year.

12.04.2006 The women civic initiative “Antico” announced the start of campaign to collect financial and material assistance for victims of violence in the family. The collected aid will be sold in a SILENT AUCTION on May 12, 2006, at Kontinental Hotel in Skopje.

11.04.2006 On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, the NGO Support Centre – Kratovo will organize a debate (“Kratis” Hotel, 14:00 hours) to discuss the following topics: The process of association of the Republic of Macedonia towards the European Union and its perspectives; IPA – Instrument for Preaccession Assistance; and Cross-border cooperation programme – Bulgaria.

10.04.2006 The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) presented, last Friday, Coexistence in Schools: Different and Yet the Same, its new programme for multiethnic tolerance and respect for diversity.

07.04.2006 The CitizensÂ’ Pact for SEE starts a campaign against the announced raise in EU visa fees. The European Council for Justice and Home Affairs is expected to decide, at the end of April, on EU visa fees increase from EURO 35 to EURO 60 for citizens of third countries. According to announcements, the implementation of new fees will start on January 1, 2007.

07.04.2006 Led by the idea that information and knowledge should be universally accessible, the Open the Windows citizensÂ’ association offers new and original access to information technology for citizens with special needs.