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<title>ZNM: Greece Has to Secure Freedom of Information</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/151233/1/3193</link>
<description>The Association of Journalists of Macedonia demands from Greek authorities to put an end to the practice of selecting the events that it deems appropriate to be covered by Macedonian media and journalists, depending on their own agreement with those events.</description>
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<title>High Abortion Rates Remain Issue for Roma Women</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/151123/1/3193</link>
<description>A poll conducted by the National Roma Centre (NRC) from Kumanovo, shows that almost a half of the polled Roma women live in extramarital communities, while only one in ten Roma women owns personal ID documents and proof of citizenship, which leads to the situation in which their children are not entered in the new-born children registries.</description>
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<title>Global Action Week against Armed Violence Starts in Macedonia</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/151071/1/3193</link>
<description>Under the dark shadow of the violent incidents that took place at last Sunday`s Parliamentary Elections, the Civil nongovernmental organization launched the Macedonian campaign against armed violence, which is part of the Global Action Week against Armed Violence, June 2-9, 2008.</description>
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<title>Macedonian Elections Marred by Violence</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/151060/1/3193</link>
<description>The 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Macedonia, held last Sunday, June 1, were tainted by serious violence on the ballot day, resulting in one death, several wounded people and dozens of arrests.</description>
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<title>Peace Caravan 2008 Ends in Skopje </title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150993/1/3193</link>
<description>After Sarajevo, Prijedor, Pan&amp;#269;evo and Zaje&amp;#269;ar, the Peace Caravan 2008 arrived in Skopje on May 19, 2008, to end this year`s trip with an action on the `Makedonija` Square.</description>
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<title>Civil Appeals for Fair Elections without Terror</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150981/1/3193</link>
<description>Following the development of the electoral process in Macedonia and rising number of serious violent incidents, Civil expresses its deepest concern over the fact that the life of the citizens in Tetovo, Gostivar and other cities and towns in Macedonia are threatened, whilst the election process gets a face of an everyday terror, not the highest democratic process in the society.</description>
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<title>Macedonian-Greek Dialogue: Time for Little Sense and Understanding</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150971/1/3193</link>
<description>A group of about 50 leftist anti-militarist and progressive activists from Greece will visit Macedonia on Saturday, May 17, to meet in a joint debate with their Macedonian hosts (Hotel Continental, 13:00 hours).</description>
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<title>MOF Demands Transparency in Creation of Student Parliament</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150944/1/3193</link>
<description>The Youth Education Forum (MOF) accused the Student Union at the `Kiril and Metodij` University in Skopje (SSUKM) of neglect of the Constitutional Court ruling to delete provisions in articles 56 and 106 of the University Statute, on MOF`s initiative.</description>
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<title>Megjasi: Political Parties Should Leave Children out of Election Campaigns</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150934/1/3193</link>
<description>The First Children Embassy in the World – Megjasi, invoking Article 92 of the Law on Protection of Children, demands from political parties to protect the children from abuses to gain political goals in election campaigns.</description>
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<title>Macedonia Celebrates Earth Day</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150853/1/3193</link>
<description>Macedonia marked this year`s Earth Day last Sunday, April 20, with a series of related events on Macedonian Square in Skopje, including a special programme for children.</description>
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<title>Macedonia to Hold Early Parliamentary Elections, Concerns Over Gun Violence</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150846/1/3193</link>
<description>Civil NGO appeals to all citizens of Macedonia, especially political parties and community leaders to denounce the use of armed violence and respect laws and democratic principles.</description>
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<title>TM Demands Dissolution of the Anti-Corruption Commission</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150831/1/3193</link>
<description>The Transparency Macedonia demands for the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption to be dissolved because of its omission to act in a number of corruption scandals, such as the sale of Negotino power plant, the sale of the land behind the Ramstore Mall in Skopje, the suspect procurements of computers, medicines and other medical equipment.</description>
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<title>Eradicate Discrimination of Roma</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150821/1/3193</link>
<description>Macedonia should make efforts to make education more accessible to the Roma, demanded the participants in yesterday`s debate Challenges of Integration of Roma Community, held on the occasion of April 8, the International Day of the Roma.</description>
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<title>Protests in Skopje: No Full Social Consensus on NATO in Macedonia</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150799/1/3193</link>
<description>About fifty activists of the informal initiative Against Macedonia in NATO! protested yesterday, April 2, on the eve of the NATO Summit in Bucharest, the eventual Macedonian membership in NATO, in front of the Government Building in Skopje.</description>
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<title>Anti-NATO Protests in Skopje</title>
<link>http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150782/1/3193</link>
<description>The Against NATO! Against Macedonia in NATO! peace initiative organizes a protest rally against Macedonian membership in the North-Atlantic Alliance, on Saturday, March 29, at 13:00 hours.</description>
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