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MHRMI Condemns the European Parliament's Resolution Claiming that Macedonians are "Bulgarian"
Is the European Parliament ignorant or anti-Macedonian? These are the only two options. In a blatant display of sheer lunacy, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on Albania to protect the rights of its "Bulgarian” minority - in Macedonian-inhabited areas of Albania - and "recommends that the rights ...
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US Congressman Calls for Partition of Macedonia - MHRMI Demands his Resignation and Reprimand, Calls for Support for Macedonia from President Trump
As if the first partition of Macedonia wasn't enough, US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher decided to call for the further partition of Macedonia, saying "I am sorry to say but it is not a state. Kosovars and Albanians in Macedonia should become part of Kosovo. The other part of Macedonia should become part of Bulgaria, or whatever country they allege to belong.” The country that Macedonians belong to, Mr.
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Human Rights Watch Declines to Denounce Name Negotiations as Attack on Macedonia's Most Basic of Rights
Despite requests by Macedonian Human Rights Movement International that Human Rights Watch (HRW) - as one of the world's most influential human rights organizations - denounce the UN-sponsored name negotiations aimed at changing Macedonia's name, HRW has declined. The reason given by Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director of HRW's Europe ...
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MHRMI Defends the Existence of the Macedonian Nation - Yes, It's the Year 2016
The Hill: It's 2016, and Macedonia is a real place Georgea Polizos makes a perfect presentation of Greece's illogical and incoherent, ever-changing, position on the Macedonia issue in her response to my op-ed in The Hill. But before I get to Ms. Polizos' technical justification about why it's acceptable ...
MHRMI Interviews Proud Macedonian UFC Fighter Alexander "The Great” Volkanovski
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International President, Bill Nicholov, had the pleasure of interviewing proud Macedonian UFC fighter, Alexander "The Great” Volkanovski following his recent and impressive Ultimate Fighting Championship debut. MHRMI: First, congratulations on winning your UFC debut! Yes, I'm pretending to be Joe Rogan or Jon Anik, describe the feeling for us...
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Victims of lesser-known forms of racism face an uphill battle
Source: thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/307664-when-greece-and-hillary-clinton-tried-to-erase-macedonia What if a politician or his/her campaign chair made a derogatory comment that negates the ethnic origin of an entire group, and continued a policy that ignores persecution of this group and seeks to change its ethnic identity? Breaking news, right? Huge scandal? Only if it's a higher-profile group.
Greece: Continuous acts of harassment against minority rights defenders
CASE GRE 181116 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Restrictions to freedom of movement / Entry ban / Arbitrary detention The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Greece. Description of the situation: The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed ...
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MHRMI Meets with US State Department Officials, Calls on US to Support Macedonia's Name, Macedonian Minority Rights, and to End its Interference in Macedonian Politics
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International President, Bill Nicholov, met with US State Department officials on October 19, 2016 and called for the United States to immediately end its calls for Macedonia to change its name and to denounce the name negotiations. Nicholov called for the US to help end ...
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MHRMI Condemns Greece's Blacklisting of Macedonians as MHRMI Activist is Denied Entry into Greece
Slavko Mangovski, MHRMI International Coordinator and a dual-citizen of the US and Macedonia, was denied entry into Greece on October 24, 2016 at the Medzitlija/Niki (Negochani) border crossing. He was told by border officials that he is on the "list of undesirables”, Greece's blacklist of Macedonian human rights activists, ...
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MHRMI Meets with UN Special Envoy Matthew Nimetz, Calls for his Resignation and an End to the Macedonia Name Negotiations
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 in New York City, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International President, Bill Nicholov, met with Ambassador Matthew Nimetz, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on the name issue. MHRMI called for Mr. Nimetz to resign and, as his predecessor Robin O'Neil did, to publicly denounce the name negotiations.