Macedonian Human Rights Movement International Information

Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (formerly Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada) has been active on human rights issues for Macedonians and other oppressed peoples since 1986. It was formed in response to the release of the "Manifesto for Macedonian Human Rights, the Movement for Human and National Rights for the Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia", by the Central Organizing Committee for the Macedonian Human Rights, in Salonica, Greece in 1984. Among the main objectives of MHRMI are: - to pursue and attain all fundamental human and national rights including the right of freedom of expression and association and to support all democratic principles for all ethnic Macedonians, and other oppressed peoples; - to support, promulgate, and adhere to the principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of the United Nations (U.N.) Organization, the U.N. sponsored International Human Rights Covenants and Protocols, the European Convention on Human Rights, the principles embodied in the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris, and all other documents of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) (presently known as the Organization on Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); - to monitor human rights developments in Canada, and to affirm our constitutional rights as Canadians, as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, against any discriminatory and prejudicial practices that we encounter, either as individuals or as a community; and, - to provide information, advice, assistance and support to individuals and organizations of ethnic Macedonians and others, in all parts of Macedonia and beyond, concerning human and national rights and fundamental freedoms as Macedonians.