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07.06.2009
The
Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) works to protect
the Macedonian language and religious identity.
 Many
people within the Australian Macedonian community would have experienced
some level of insensitivity to Macedonian culture, language or religion
at some stage of their lives. The Australian Macedonian Human Rights
Committee (AMHRC) recently became aware of two instances where
Macedonian culture, language and religion did not receive the respect
and recognition it deserved by several large non-government
organisations. The AMHRC felt it would be an injustice to the Macedonian
community of Australia if it did not seek rectification of these
matters.
In the first instance the
AMHRC became aware that the National Accreditation Authority for
Translators and Interpreters (NAATI)
had decided to remove the Macedonian Language from its Annual Testing
Program for 2009, and for the indefinite future. In short, this decision
meant that any translator or interpreter of the Macedonian language in
Australia could not participate in NAATI’s annual testing program, and
therefore could not receive accreditation from NAATI. NAATI is the peak
accreditation body for translators and interpreters in Australia. This
would have been a major blow for Macedonian translators and interpreters
in Australia, not to mention any individual or organisation seeking to
utilise the services of these professionals. |
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28.05.2009
Greek Plea to Barack
Obama to Reverse Recognition of Macedonia - Based on 2,000 Year Old
"Facts"
 Australian
Macedonian Human Rights Committee and Macedonian Human Rights Movement
International – Press Release
Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada, May 25, 2009
- "Greece is in no position to dictate anything based on history. More
to the point, should we be governed today based on arbitrary
interpretations of ancient history?" (MHRMI
Letter to Hill Times)
In an ever-increasing move of desperation, so-called
"scholars of Graeco-Roman antiquity" (the Greek Diaspora and
“supporters”) sent a letter to Barack Obama on May 18, 2009, pleading
for him to "intervene to clean up some of the historical debris left in
southeast Europe by the previous U.S. administration." In other words,
reverse US recognition of the Republic of Macedonia. |
10.05.2009
AMHRC and MHRMI Call on
Macedonians Abroad to Report Discrimination by Greece
Melbourne,
Australia and Toronto, Canada - May 10, 2009 - Following the publicity
of Canadian-Macedonians' discrimination at the hands of the Greek
Consulate in Toronto (see
www.mhrmi.org/news/2009/may05_e.asp ), Macedonian Human Rights
Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human
Rights Committee (AMHRC) call on Macedonians in the diaspora to contact
our organizations to report on similar difficulties they have faced |
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23.04.2009
NAATI_letter_Reply_to_Heywood from 15 April
2009
Dear Dr Heywood,
Thank you for your letter of 15 December 2008 in reply
to my letter of 23 October 2008 in which I raised the matter of NAATI
testing in Macedonian.
In your reply you pointed out the reasons why
NAATI has not included the
Macedonian
language in the annual program of testing this financial year. You
also indicated that your board is exploring how the annual testing model
might be able to be discontinued in favour of a model based on more
frequently available testing. It has recently come to our attention that
the NAATI board has decided to discontinue the traditional Annual
Program of Testing from 1 June 2009 in favour of more regular access to
testing. However, in view of your board’s decision to exclude Macedonian
from this year’s testing program, it is not clear whether Macedonian
will be included in the new testing regime.
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22.04.2009
Channel_7 Greek Letter Easter from 19 April
2009
Dear Sir/Madam
I write in reference to your 6:00 pm Melbourne news
bulletin of Sunday 19 April 2009. In that bulletin you ran a report on
“Greek Easter”.
Please note that last weekend it was not "Greek
Easter", but Eastern Orthodox Easter that was being celebrated. Eastern
Orthodox Easter is celebrated not only by Greeks, but also by
Macedonians, Serbians, Russians, Montenegrins, Ukrainians, Belorussians,
Romanians, Georgians, Bulgarians, Armenians, Ethiopian and Egyptian
Copts, some Albanians, Syrian and Lebanese Orthodox believers and many
other communities in Europe and the Middle East. Many of these
communities have their own thriving churches in Melbourne and their
churches and places of worship were full this past weekend. It is thus
wrong to term Eastern Orthodox Easter "Greek Easter", as all the
different Orthodox communities have their own national Orthodox churches
and hierarchies and do not come under the aegis of a single Orthodox
Church authority.
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