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Terms of References For procurement of expert service for development of sustainability plan with proposed business model based on service financing for the organisation (B.L. 4.5.6.5.1) under the project No. P9410“Organizational development of NRC and improved employability and entrepreneurship skills of Roma people, especially women and youth” I.     Background This…

“Macedonia failed the human rights exam during the pandemic” is the main finding of the assessment we made as part of a pilot comparative analysis coordinated by the EUI (Italy) and Oxford (UK) universities. The assessment was done by our research coordinator Biljana Kotevska. DOWNLOAD PDF

Issuing a public call for participation. Selection of participants and trainers ( 20 Participants 10 from IRCA and 10 from NRC) Seminar 2 – on approaches and methodologies for non-formal education on media literacy for Roma youth. 30/07/2021-01/08/2021 Organization of seminar Seminar 2 (Burgas , Bulgaria) was first posted on…

Civil society organisations across the EU provide services, engage in communities, raise awareness, advocate on behalf of others and hold authorities to account. But they face threats, attacks, funding cuts and disproportionate restrictions. These are just some of the challenges human rights civil society organisations face in some parts of…

In this podcast, we discuss deliberative democracy and the method of deliberative polling with Alice Siu, Associate Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy. Deliberative Democracy is a unique form of political consultation that combines techniques of public opinion research and public deliberation to reveal what public opinion would be…

The analysis of the quality and uniformity of court decisions in civil cases prepared by Dusko Georgievski, includes 88 anonymized decisions from the four appellate areas adopted in the period from 2017 to 2020 (with the exception of one, which was adopted in early 2021 ). Each of the decisions…

According to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the safeguards enshrined in Article 6 of the European Human Rights Convention (ECHR) include the obligation of courts to provide and produce appropriate and sufficient reasoning for their decisions. The right to reasoned decisions is a key aspect…

The process of reform of the judiciary in Bulgaria is still ongoing, with no establishment of a solid and clearly defined framework for the judicial system or consensus amidst political parties, the judiciary, and the public on the concept for the development of the setup and organisation of the judicial…

Starting from August 2021, the Think for Europe Network (TEN) commenced its work on the research project “the EU as a promoter of democracy or ‘stabilitocracy’ in the Western Balkans?”. This project is implemented in partnership with the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’. Through its enlargement policies the EU tries to…

CIVIL – Center for Freedom has been monitoring the process of the implementation of the census since the day the procedure for its implementation started, that is, the preparations for the Law on the Census of the Population, adopted in January 2021. On the day of the start of the census,…