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macedonianhr.org.au | News | 2010 | News Index 2010
News Index 2010
31.01.2010 :: AMHRC 26th Annual Dinner Dance
The AMHRC's Annual Dinner Dance is to be held on the 20th March 2010. This years guest includes Dimitris Ioannou (Jovanov), Macedonian Human Rights activist from Greece and Professor Victor Friedman distinguished Professor of Linguistics from the University of Chicago. This years event promises to be memorable ... read more
04.02.2010 :: AMHRC Begins Formal Action Against South Australian Premier Rann
At a recent Greek Festival, South Australian Premier Mr Mike Rann delivered a speech that was inflammatory, bigoted and offensive to all ethnic Macedonians. The AMHRC has delivered and an open letter to Mr Rann informing him of our intention to persue him via legal means ... read more
10.02.2010 :: AMHRC official visit to Canberra
On 1-2 February 2010, a delegation from the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee visited Canberra for a number of important meetings with Federal MPs and the Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Australia. The visit was the first in series of visits planned for 2010 and carries on from several meetings held in Canberra in 2009 ... read more
12.02.2010 :: Condemnation of Albania's State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Macedonians
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) condemn the Albanian government's involvement in preventing Macedonian language classes from taking place in the Golo Brdo region ... read more
18.02.2010 :: 'Denes' interviews AMHRC Executive
The Editor of 'Denes' Igor Pavlovski interviewed the AMHRC executive recently. The results were published in Denes this week ... read more
04.03.2010 :: AMHR Proudly presents "a name is a name"
On the 4th March, the AMHRC proudly presented the film "a name is a name" ... read more
11.03.2010 :: AMHRC to host an Open Forum
The AMHRC will be Hosting an Open Forum question and answer session with Professor Victor Friedman and Dimitri Jovanov - Macedonian Human Rights Activist from Aegean Macedonia ... read more
11.03.2010 :: Professor Victor Friedman to give public Lecture La Trobe university
Abstract: I will discuss both the history and current state of the Balkan Sprachbund in light of the Guggenheim & Fulbright-Hays-sponsored research I did in Macedonia 2008-2009 ... read more
12.03.2010 :: 2010 US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece
Yet again, the denial of the rights of the Macedonian minority featured in this year's report. In respect of freedom of association, the State Department noted that the "government continued to refuse to allow the registration of the group Home of Macedonian Culture as an association in accordance with the provisions of the civil code ... read more
15.03.2010 :: Premier Rann under Investigation by Australian Human Rights Commission
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) has acted on the complaint lodged by the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee ("AMHRC") against the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann ... read more
16.03.2010 :: Rann's Unsatisfactory Response
Yesterday, Premier Rann's office released to the media a response to the complaint lodged by the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) against the Premier at the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commision), for discriminatory statements in reference to Macedonians. We consider Mr. Rann's response to be unsatisfactory ... read more
29.04.2010 :: AMHRC and MHRMI To Launch Campaign For Legal Action Against The Greek State To Restore Citizenship And Property Rights To Macedonians From Greece
The Australian-Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC), Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI), the Association of the Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia of Melbourne and Victoria, the Association of Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia (ARCAM) in Canada and Macedonian refugee associations in the Republic of Macedonia have decided to launch a campaign for legal action against the Greek state to restore citizenship and property rights to Macedonians from Greece ... read more
01.05.2010 ::Response To Misinformation Regarding The So-Called "DECISION" To Return Greek Citizenship To Macedonians From Greece
The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) are issuing this statement in order to answer some questions that have arisen as a result of what appears to be a misinformation campaign orchestrated by Greek sources. It has been alleged that the Greek government has made a decision to return citizenship to Macedonian exiles who originate from Greece... read more
01.05.2010 :: MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Macedonia to Immediately Cease Name Negotations
In light of US Ambassador Philip Reeker's recent comments that "The [name] issue must be solved, because if not, a question mark is put on Macedonia's future" ... read more
01.05.2010 ::Bulgaria Reverts to Past Totalitarian Practices and Bans Macedonian and Us Citizens from Attending Macedonian Commemorations
Bulgaria has begun to emulate long time EU member Greece's practice of harassing or banning "undesirables" from entering their country. This includes anyone who dares to proclaim the existence of a Macedonian minority ... read more
07.05.2010 :: AMHRC/MHRMI Welcome the launch of the "Nova Zora" newspaper in Greece
The Australian-Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) welcome the launching of Nova Zora (New Dawn), a bilingual newspaper in Macedonian and Greek dedicated to issues concerning the Macedonian minority in Aegean Macedonia, Greece ... read more
11.05.2010 :: AMHRC/ MHRMI Condemn Bulgarian Foreign Minister's statement that no Macedonian minority exists in Bulgaria
The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) condemn the statement by the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Nikolay Mladenov that a Macedonian minority does not exist in Bulgaria ... read more
18.05.2010 :: Sandridge Bridge Macedonian Panel Vandalised
The AMHRC has written to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle, in an effort to hasten the restoration of the vandalised glass panel on the Sandridge Bridge ... read more
21.05.2010 :: AMHRC Summer Review - 2010
AMHRC official visit to Canberra, Detsa Begaltsi, Greece blacklists Macedonians, On the difficulties facing Vinozito, Mike Rann in focus, In review - Michael Seraphinoff, AMHRC hosted the Melbourne premiere of a name is a name, Every Premier has his price, and some go real cheap, Igor Pavlovski of Denes interviews the AMHRC Executive, MHRMI and United Macedonians contribute to Canadian Museum for Human Rights ... read more
21.08.2010 ::Macedonians Demand End to Name Negotiations
Toronto, Canada and Melbourne, Australia (August 19, 2010) - Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia, and throughout the world, are showing overwhelming support for the "Our Name is Macedonia" ad campaign, which demands that Macedonia end all negotiations with Greece over its name ... read more
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