2005 NEWS ARCHIVES
MHRMI Condemns Greece's Continued Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) condemns Greece's continued blacklisting of ethnic Macedonian human rights activists and political refugees. Gjorgi Plukovski, a Canadian citizen of Macedonian descent, born in Harala, Kastoria, Greece (Pozdivishta, Kostur in Macedonian) was denied entry into Greece when attempting to ...
Greek Newspaper Censors Article on Macedonian Minority and Language - English Translation
EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE - RAINBOW POLITICAL PARTY OF THE MACEDONIAN MINORITY IN GREECE Member of the European Free Alliance - European Political Party (EFA- EPP) Member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) ST. DRAGOUMI 11 TK. 53100 P.O 51 TEL/FAX 0030 23850 46548 http://www.florina.org/ E-mail: ...
EBLUL Press Release on Greek Newspaper Censoring Article on Macedonian Minority and Language
Greek Member State Committee of EBLUL Parisis Athanasios MAZARAKI 7a 59200 NAOUSA/NEGUSH - GREECE Tel: ++306972844412 E-mail: parisis@nao.forthnet.gr Press Release Naoussa / Negush, 17th August 2005 The Greek Member State Committee of the European Bureau For Lesser-Used Languages (EBLUL) finds itself, for yet another time, in the unpleasant ...
Greek Newspaper Censors Article on Macedonian Minority and Language
ALERT - GREECE Newspaper censors article on Macedonian minority and language SOURCE: Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), Athens (GHM/IFEX) - GHM condemns the censorship by the Greek daily newspaper "Makedonia" of an article on the banned Macedonian language in Greece that was to be published on 14 August 2005, in the regular Sunday column of writer Thanasis Triaridis.
Greece Succumbs to Public Pressure: Aegean Macedonians Finally Visit Their Birthplaces
By Meri Jordanovska http://www.vreme.com.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=1&EditionID=466&ArticleID=29165 A group of 43 former residents of Florina (Lerin in Macedonian) region yesterday crossed the Macedonian-Greek border for the first time with a group visa without any problems. Thrilled and overwhelmed with happiness to finally see their birthplaces, Macedonians from the ...
Press Release
MHRMI Condemns Statements by Serbian Minister of Religion
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International condemns the recent declaration made by the Serbian Minister of Religion, Milan Radulovic, who stated that the Serbian government would not allow the construction of Macedonian places of worship - or Macedonian churches - in the Republic of Serbia. The statement comes amid news by ...
Press Release
MHRMC Becomes MHRMI - Macedonian Human Rights Movement International
Effective August 2005, Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada has become Macedonian Human Rights Movement International to reflect better the international scope of the issues facing Macedonians everywhere. Contact information for MHRMI remains the same except our website, which is now https://mhrmi.org/ Bill Nicholov, President Macedonian Human Rights Movement International Address: 157 Adelaide St.
Greek Government Urged to Halt Harassment of Macedonian Natives
Skopje, 9 August: Canadian national of descent from Aegean Macedonia, Gjorgji Plukovski, was not granted entrance in Greece on 4 August and was given a written explanation, which read that he represented a threat to public security and health in Greece as well as the country's relations with other EU member-countries.
NGO/State Exchange on Turkish and Macedonian Minorities in Greece at the UN
UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS SUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WORKING GROUP ON MINORITIES ELEVENTH SESSION GENEVA 30 MAY-3 JUNE 2005 Agenda Item 3a MUSLIM TURKISH MINORITY OF WESTERN THRACE GREECE Thank you Mr. Chairman, My name is Tzemil Kapza; I represent Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association in Greece.
Rainbow/Vinozhito Letter to Ms. Carla del Ponte - Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Rainbow/Vinozhito - Press Release TO: Ms. Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia CC: Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Kostas Karamanlis President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias Dear Madam Prosecutor, On this, the 10th anniversary of the genocide in ...