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Helsinki Committee: In R.North Macedonia, Roma are most discriminated

The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in 1966 declared March 21 the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On that day in 1960, police in Sharpeville, South Africa killed 69 people in a peaceful protest to abolish segregation and against apartheid as an official policy.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in her address on the occasion of today's celebration, once again stressed that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. We can all contribute to the development and well-being of society. The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an opportunity for all of us to repeat that every day of the year we will fight to put an end to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.

Today, in many parts of the world, we are witnessing an increase in movements based on ideas of racial superiority that demonize migrants and minorities. Such nationalism strengthens divisions, fosters violence and makes society less secure. You can take care of your country and still take care of the world. You can take care of your community and your family, while at the same time respecting the diversity of others.

Regretfully, we conclude that, in our country, racial discrimination is directly or indirectly directed towards citizens belonging to the Roma community. The Committee has been collecting data for a long time and considering requests by citizens, members of the Roma community for their labeling, targeting and unequal treatment.

Roma as a vulnerable group are often victims of multiple discrimination and have limited access to social, health and educational services.

Once again, we emphasize our commitment and commitment in the fight against unequal status and treatment in the Republic of North Macedonia, aimed at the complete elimination of racial discrimination, and we invite all citizens who feel discriminated on any grounds to report it to the Helsinki Committee.

The proposal for a joint commemoration in Jasenovac was rejected

Representatives of the Serbian and Jewish communities in Croatia today announced that they will hold a special commemoration in April for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp from the Second World War and that they will not participate in the joint commemoration, proposed by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

On Saturday, Plenkovic called on the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters and Anti-Fascists of the Republic of Croatia, and representatives of Jews, Serbs and Roma, together with state officials, to hold a memorial to the victims of this Ustasha camp.

In the past three years, representatives of the Serbian, Jewish and Roma communities, as well as anti-fascists, who made up the majority of the victims killed in Jasenovac, boycotted the official commemoration in protest of the government's failure to cope with the historical revisionism of the atrocities of the Second World War.

He announced that on April 12, the Serbian, Jewish and Roma minorities and anti-fascists will hold a special commemoration.

According to the list of the Jasenovac Memorial Center, between 1941 and 1945, Ustashas killed 83,145 prisoners, Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists in the camp.

Pope Francis will spend all day in Skopje and will hold Mass at the square "Macedonia"

On May 7, Pope Francis will arrive in Skopje for the first time. His visit is regarded as historical because it coincides with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Northern Macedonia and the Vatican.
His agenda will begin in the morning, and many popes and foreign supporters from the Pope are expected to come to Skopje.
Skopje will be blocked on May 7, but Secretary of State Viktor Dimovski says security in the country will be at the highest level.

And from the Ministry of Interior report that they are taking all necessary measures for fully and efficiently securing the event and the high guest.

After the official reception, Pope Francis will meet with the President, Gjorge Ivanov, the Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, representatives of the civil sector and the diplomatic leadership. During his stay, he will meet with the religious leaders and the poor. In the program for the apostolic journey of the Pope in Northern Macedonia, a liturgy is also planned, and is expected to participate in the ecumenical and inter-religious gathering with the youth. Pope Francis will finish his 29th apostolic journey in the afternoon on May 7, with a meeting he will meet with priests and their families, after which he will return to Rome.

Civilmedia - Residents of Bair, Bitola: Politicians in these elections will not mislead us with water!

"We do not have a winter time, we do not have summer water. Always before the elections, politicians come and lie to us, after the elections are nowhere to be found, "one resident of the Bitola Bair told a citizen journalist who went to see if after five months something changed after the announcement of CIVIL that people in Biala for decades they live without a drop of water.

Another resident of this impoverished settlement adds that the mayor of the Bitola municipality, Natasha Petrovska, promised them to solve the problem of electricity and water.

"Natasha promised us that we would fulfill our desire to have water. But now elections will come a little more and I want to tell Natasha to consider and solve the problem, otherwise it will not send people to persuade us to vote, because, as they come, they will leave. In Bair no one will vote, "she says.

"Before the elections they come and lie to us that if we vote, they will solve the water problem and give us 500 denars to vote. Why should I give my voice for 500 denars? "Says one resident of Bair, who wants to remain anonymous.

Residents say they have blocked several times for the state and the municipality to hear their problems.
"In the school, we let the children go with lice, because we do not have water to swallow them," says a disturbed mother.

Five months ago, on 6 November 2018, a part of the CIVIL team, together with a team of citizen journalists, visited the Bair settlement and met with the mayor of Bitola, Natasha Petrovska and the director of JKP Vodovod, Goran Kozarov, who noted that they know about that problem they are trying to solve.

However, even five months after CIVIL reported on the problems faced by the Bairian (k) and, there was no reaction from the local and central authorities.
Are the Roma in Bair counted and seen only as a voting machine ?!

Link: https://civilmedia.mk/zhitelite-na-bair-bitola-politicharite-na-ovie-izbori-nema-da-ne-izlazhat-so-vodata/?fbclid=IwAR0TZQmXQsYEF5N-4h9UPEbmzzlmP5PfI3zG3ZMm1tCtxJZYXo10qQRM9B0

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