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Formed in 1984 the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee is an Australian based non-government organisation that informs and advocates to governments, international institutions and broader communities about combating discrimination and promoting basic human rights. The aspiration is to ensure that Macedonian communities in Australia and throughout the world are recognised, respected and afforded equitable treatment.
| | Latest News16.03.2010 :: 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
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
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
11.03.2010 :: Professor Victor Friedman to give public Lecture La Trobe university
Professor Friedman will be discussing both the history and current state of the Balkan Sprachbund in light of the Guggenheim & Fulbright-Hays-sponsored research undertaken in Macedonia 2008-2009 ... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
22.12.2009 :: MHRMI and AMHRC Condemn Greece's Continued Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians
Greece continues to blacklist Macedonians who are active in human rights organizations abroad or who are political refugees. The latest reported incident occurred on December 19, 2009, when Macedonian citizen, Nikola Kosturski, a member of the Association of Child Refugees (Detsa Begaltsi) in Bitola, was denied entry because he "is a person for whom an alert has been issued for the purposes of refusing entry" and is "in the national register". Greece's blacklisting of ethnic Macedonians affects citizens of Canada, Australia, the United States, and many Western European countries ... read more
18.12.2009 :: MHRMI and United Macedonians Contribute to Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the United Macedonians Organization of Canada (UM) participated at the December 1, 2009 roundtable discussion organized by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The goal of this meeting was to help develop content and exhibits for the new Museum, due to open in Winnipeg in 2012 ... read more
06.12.2009 :: AMHRC/MHRMI Condemn European Betrayal of OMO 'ILINDEN' PIRIN
The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International, have written in protest to the Council of Europe after an appalling decision was taken by the Committee of Ministers (COM - 1/12/09) in Strasbourg, to end the monitoring of the execution of the 2005 judgement of the European Court of Human Rights involving Bulgaria and the de-registration of OMO "Ilinden" PIRIN ... read more
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