MACEDONIA – JCWE-=JOURNALISTS FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN RIGHTS
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 15, 2006
MACEDONIA – JCWE
JOURNALISTS FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN RIGHTS AND PROTECTION
OF ENVIRONMENT IN MACEDONIA
Journalist for children and women rights and environment
is NGO of journalists who cover the topic of children, women and environment
rights. We exist from 1998 and at the moment we are engaged in numerous
campaigns and we also participate in a lot of international conferences were we
are building and gaining on experience and knowledge.
Journalist for children and women rights and
environment – JCWE
is non-governmental, non-party, non-profitable journalists association,
established in September 1998. JCWE is a non-governmental organizations from
various ethical, national and religious background and different working
interest.
The vision of JCWE is youth prosperity, gender equality, guaranty of
women’s and children rights as human rights and elimination of the
discrimination of women in the society and the family; peace and conflict
resolutions; develop non conflict society; children rights and environment
rights, the free of media and expression.
The mission of JCWE is support of the
local organizations; support of the woman, youth and children as individual;
development; citizens participation in the public life, projects; creation; new
relations within the society; cooperation and mutual support; advocacy and
promotion; women’s rights; youth rights; children rights; struggle against the
violence; abuse and trafficking of children, girls and women; equal
possibilities and equal participation in all spheres of social
life.
Encouragement of the tolerance and
dialogue, promotion and peace protection in the region, greater participation of
citizens in the government and decision-making, improvement of the social and
economical status of citizens and enterprise development.
Since March 2002
our NGO became the leader of all of the Balkan’s NGO’s for small arms and lights
weapons in the region – BANSA.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, CONFERENCES,
MEETINGS AND SEMINARS;
·
Against small
arms in Brussels, Belgium;
·
Environmental
and ethics – Brixen, Italy
·
Human rights –
Geneva, Switzerland;
·
Stop the use of
children soldiers, Berlin, Germany;
·
Journalist and
children and women topics- Ulan Bator, Mongolia;
·
10 Years
Convention of children rights, Montreal, Canada;
As well as other international conferences, such as in
Tunisia, Italy, Greece, Romania, Hungary…)
·
At the moment
engaged in the period of establishing the regional network of environmental
journalist within Mediterranean network of environmental journalist;
·
Millennium
conference in New York;
·
Street children
and their future – Berlin;
·
UN Conference
against small arms and lights weapons – N.Y.
·
Publishing
activities: Weekly newspaper “Detstvo”, published book “Golem grad”,
guide-brochure, “Contacting the public through a guide”
Actually we work on big joint project between our NGO and
HELP NEPAL, called PRESPA PARK – PARK OF PEACE ZONE, were 30 volunteers from
Nepal will clean Prespa area for this summer seasons.
MISSION OF JCWE
Mission of JCWE is public understanding human
rights issues.
Our vision
is: information, communication and
education.
AIMS:
– To exchange the information
– To work in network – JCWE
– To create good possibility for development
– To work on joint project with other national and
international organizations
MEMBERS:
Journalists from Macedonia who write for human rights
issues, youth, media experts, children, human rights experts, legal
experts…
TASKS
– To organize system of concrete prevention of human
bins
– To surmount the negative results of conflict
violence
– To support all kind of fighting against human
violence
– To organize journalists
training
– To create a professional interdisciplinary society
consisting of experts, dealing with the problems of human rights
CONTRIVANCES
FOR REALIZATION OF THE AIMS AND THE TASKS:
– Information
– Communication
– Interventions and training
– Research
– Preventive and media
campaign
– National and international
projects
– Collaboration and partnership with national and
international institutions and NGO’s
MEMBERSHIP:
IANSA, BANSA, CONTROL ARMS CAMPAIGN, BUL-MAK COALITION,
CRIN, MEDECOMEDIA, BALKAN COALITION FOR PROTECTION CHILDREN RIGHTS. YES
CAMPAIGN, GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY, WWSF
FOR CORRESPONDENCE:
MACEDONIA, 1000 Skopje, bl. Jane Sandanski
86-2/15
Tel:+3892 24 61 308/ +389 70
277619
OFFICE:
MACEDONIA, 1000 Skopje, ul. Venijamin Maculovski, br.
2A-3/16
Tel:+3892 24 61 308/ +389 70
277619
E-mail: detstvo@detstvo.org.mk <detstvo@detstvo.org.mk>
ACTIVIETIES:
Training and education; raising awareness
campaign for conflict resolutions and, children, youth and women rights and her
own rights and capabilities; work with group of children, youth and women,
specific problems and needs of women; publishing; magazine DETSTVO, brochures
and publications; cooperation with NGO and state
institutions;
Contact persons
President: Natasha Dokovska
General secretary: Filip Spirovski
Project manager:
Aleksanadra
Nakova – women rights
Stojan
Spirovski – media
Emil Niami – EU integratiom
Mirjana Stojanovska – youth action
Juliana Stojanovska – legal
expert
Filip Spirovski –
disarmament
Elena Slavkovska –
education
Pece Mantalj –
environment
Natasha Dokovska – coordinator of
International federation of peace
journalism
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