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On behalf of the massive action under the motto “Day of the tree – Plant your future” (2.4 million trees planted in Republic of Macedonia), which was realized on the 12th March 2008 supported by the Government of Republic of Macedonia, the local government, artists, citizens of Republic of Macedonia… the area for planting the trees in the area of Kumanovo was the village Celopek, where NRC’s member activists took full participation.

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On 25th of February 2008 in the Informative Office of the Council of Europe, representatives of NRC with other NGOs were invited to participate on meeting with Mr. Hammarberg.

During the meeting Mr. Hammarberg has shown great interest on the present discrimination which appears against Roma people in Republic of Macedonia with special accent on Romani women and the status of Roma refugees from Kosovo. Based on our work and experience he asks for opinions and monitoring remarks, which he shall address specific questions during his official meeting with the representatives of the institutions and Government. Most of the present NGOs suggested to Mr. Hammarberg to address to the highest Macedonian authorities as well as to the Ministry for Justice, Ministry of Interior, Ministry for Labour and Social Policy and the Ministry for health. As delegates from ERTF and representatives of National Roma Centrum we highlighted the fact that Roma are still marginalized group in Republic of Macedonia and that discrimination as a problem still exist. As a weakness bangle in the legal system we highlighted the importance to adopt comprehend anti-discrimination law, which does not exist making obstructions to indicate discrimination as such. The non equal implementation of Ohrid Framework Agreement also results as tool to confirm discrimination against Roma minority in Macedonia.

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On Wednesday, 20th of February, at 19:00 o’clock, at the Best-Western Hotel (restaurant Royal), in Skopje, the National Roma Centrum, organized a meeting with journalists - main and responsible editors of the media and informative centers in Republic of Macedonia.

An exchange of information and ideas was made, which would provide an opportunity for creating of relations for successful cooperation in the mutual treatment of the problem with inclusion of Roma in social and educational processes in Republic of Macedonia.

A result from this meeting was the conclusion that there is a great necessity of engaging of media in actualization and treatment of the problematic for inclusion of Roma in social and educational processes.

The media expressed their readiness together in cooperation with the National Roma Centrum for constructive approach and informing about the treatment of the Roma problematic.

In the forthcoming period NRC according to its predicted plan and program will have public appearances with concrete analyses and elaborations of data from the many months of field work in 11 cities in Republic of Macedonia.

The meeting was organized within the frames of the campaign for education of Roma in Macedonia "The key is in our hands", and was implemented by the National Roma Centrum "NRC" from Kumanovo with support of the Roma Education Fund from Budapest.

The activities will continue with great intensity in cooperation and support from the state’s institutions.

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On Tuesday, 18th of December, in multimedia center “Mala Stanica” based in Skopje, Macedonia, National Roma Centrum organized projection and presentation of the documentary movie” Empowering Romani women, empowering Roma community”.

The documentary movie is challenging supererogation of the problem with personal documentation of Romani women in the Macedonian society. Via this movie NRC wants to alarm about the situation of this women, living on the edges of society. Author of the movie is Mr. Dragan Antonovski, and the production is of National Roma Centrum.

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On behalf of the 8th FARE Week Against Racism, the National Roma Centrum in partnership with the FARE network organized a small football tournament in the Sports Hall in Kumanovo. This activity was held on the 27th October in the Week Against Racism which began on the 17th October and will last until the 30th.

On the event participants were teams from several elementary schools from Kumanovo and also there was game between the non governmental sector from Kumanovo and the members of the Council of the Municipality of Kumanovo. These players that were on the tournament joined other players, fan groups and even professional players world wide to contribute in the struggle against racism. The teams were made of Roma, Macedonian and Albanian pupils from the fifth to the eight grade. Before the official opening of the event there was a parade through the city with the banners against racism and the official motto of the event “Different players, same game”. Asmet Elezovski the manager of NRC officially opened the tournament, and the professional ex football player, the renowned Vujadin Stanojkovic closed the tournament with awards and diplomas for participation to the players.

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