Over the past decade, civic movements have made tremendous changes in society. They were the voice of the public that resonated through the streets and on social media at a time when it was very difficult for citizens’ demands to be heard in the media. They started off in a…
“Near the Aleksandar Palace Hotel, opposite an ultra-luxurious house and next to a former illegal landfill, in a small cardboard box divided into a room and a tiny entrance area, lives a family of six: Ferdi, 34 years old, Fatmira, 30 years old, and their four children. Ferdi is from…
What lies behind the murder of Skopje’s homeless man, Severdzan Sejfula? Why are institutions inert, and the state uninterested in the fate of the homeless? Is the life of the homeless worthless? SKUP investigated several cases in which homeless people were victims of hooligans, but also of the inappropriate attitude…
Police patrol: “What should we do with him, take him home? There are many like him in Skopje.” Authors: Sandra Nikchevska, Iva Andrevska, Monika Sebik A home without an address, without a street name, without a number. The coldest home in the city. The harshest in both summer and winter….
“After my parents found out I am homosexual, my mother took me to four psychiatrists. The first one, ‘to cure me,’ prescribed a combination of daily doses of sedatives like Lexilium and Diazepam.” “I have been praying every night for a long time, so that I wouldn’t be different, and…
“I encountered drugs in high school. I became addicted to heroin at 17. At 24, I was sentenced to two years in prison for drug possession. Since then, everything in my life has fallen apart,” testifies Mac, a hairdresser, born in 1982. Mac was rejected by his parents and closest…
Five years ago, worried that illnesses affecting several members of her family and friends were caused by contaminated water in Gevgelija, Jovanka Dojranlieva joined forces with a few citizens from Gevgelija to form the civic initiative “Arsena.” They set out to investigate the quality of the water supplied by the…
More than 35,000 Macedonian citizens work in the textile industry, with 7,000 employed just in Štip and the surrounding area. The work is demanding, conditions are poor, and wages are at poverty levels. Nearly 80% of workers are women. They work in the factories because they have no other way…
While the new government is focused on legislative changes in the social sector and is seeking a model to improve social entrepreneurship, civil society organizations are trying, through training programs, to help socially and economically vulnerable groups become competitive in the labor market. Supported by the Civica Mobilitas program, several…
In the past five years in Macedonia, 28 murders have been recorded as domestic violence. The Ministry of Interior’s daily bulletins are filled with incidents in which women—wives, girlfriends—are beaten. In just the first six months of this year, the police filed criminal charges against a total of 388 individuals…
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