• Macedonia: Group Wins HIV and Rights Award
    Jul 20, 2010
    Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS) is the recipient of the 2010 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. The award, which recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations that protect the rights and dignity of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, was presented in Vienna on July 20, 2010, at the XVIII International AIDS Conference.
  • Macedonia: Broaden Anti-Discrimination Bill
    Feb 3, 2010
    The Macedonian government’s decision to ignore sexual orientation as a protected category in its draft anti-discrimination law would leave lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) people without vital protection, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Macedonian authorities.
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  • Macedonia: Group Wins HIV and Rights Award
    Jul 20, 2010
    Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS) is the recipient of the 2010 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. The award, which recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations that protect the rights and dignity of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, was presented in Vienna on July 20, 2010, at the XVIII International AIDS Conference.
  • Macedonia: Broaden Anti-Discrimination Bill
    Feb 3, 2010
    The Macedonian government’s decision to ignore sexual orientation as a protected category in its draft anti-discrimination law would leave lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) people without vital protection, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Macedonian authorities.
  • Letter to the Prime Minister of Macedonia
    Feb 3, 2010
    Human Rights Watch writes Prime Minister of Macedonia, Mr. Nikola Gruevski, in concern over the government's decision to deny effective protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity in a proposed new anti-discrimination law.
  • Open Letter to the Government of Macedonia Regarding Criminal Prosecution of Alleged Sex Workers
    Dec 17, 2008
    In a letter to the government of Macedonia, the undersigned, supporters and representatives of sex workers and organizations and individuals advocating for human rights, strongly condemn police actions in relation to the recent mass arrest of alleged sex workers in Skopje, Macedonia.
  • Council of Europe: Secret CIA Prisons Confirmed
    Jun 6, 2007
    The Central Intelligence Agency secretly operated illegal prisons for terrorism suspects in multiple locations in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005, according to a report released today by the Council of Europe, a European intergovernmental human rights body.
  • European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity
    Feb 11, 2007
    The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Europe: Pending Questions on CIA Activities in Europe
    Feb 20, 2006
    European governments must provide detailed information about their participation in or knowledge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s unlawful detention and transfer of terrorist suspects.
  • ’Crime of Opinion’ is One Thing, But War Crime is Another
    Feb 10, 2005
    On January 22, 2005, a large group of law professors, politicians, and artists gathered in Belgrade’s Sava Center to support Vojislav Seselj, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). A number of participants repeated two legal arguments which, coming from well-known lawyers, purport to represent authoritative criticism of the tribunal. Both arguments, however, are patently false.
  • Comment: Hague Claims Flawed
    Oct 28, 2004
    This month, the Hague tribunal’s many opponents in Belgrade believed they had a reason to be jubilant. In the space of ten days, a former United States ambassador and a newspaper supposedly close to the current administration criticised the UN court and strongly argued in favour of trying indictees before domestic war crimes courts. Serbia’s nationalists had won an all-powerful ally in their fight against the tribunal – or so it seemed.
  • Kosovo/Serbia and Montenegro: Joint Statement on the Situation of Internally Displaced and Refugee Minorities from Kosovo
    Jun 15, 2004
    The United Nations-administered province of Kosovo has just seen what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has termed as the worst ethnic clashes since 1999. In this joint statement the organizations call on the European Union and its member states to stop involuntary returns to Kosovo, in accordance with the latest UNHCR guidance, and permit reconsideration of claims by those who have accepted voluntary return.
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