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NGO
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Reports
Organization Report

The Macedonian Helsinki Committee reported 15 physical attacks involving groups in which many people were seriously injured, property was damaged and which involved weapons, including knives and sticks. Several incidents were in connection with sports events. Victims of the assaults were either ethnic Albanians or ethnic Macedonians.

The Committee reported a further six physical assaults, including an incident in which two ethnic Albanians were pelted with stones, one in which a 15 year-old ethnic Macedonian boy was seriously injured, and the stabbing of an ethnic Albanian boy. The Committee also reported an incident in which a bomb was thrown into the home of an Albanian family, a further incident of damage to property, and two threats, including one against an ethnic Macedonian couple that involved a knife.

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Reports
Organization Report

The Macedonian Helsinki Committee reported a series of incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti throughout Skopje in connection with the annual commemoration of the deportation of Jews to Treblinka.

Bias Motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Macedonian Helsinki Committee reported three incidents of the desecration of graves.

Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

ILGA-Europe, the LGBTI Support Centre and the Macedonian Helsinki Committee reported eight physical assaults, including three carried out by groups, one of which was against four people and one also involving damage to a café that was hosting an event marking the second anniversary of the LGBTI support centre, and several stone-throwing attacks. Victims were mainly gay men, as well as two children. ILGA-Europe, the LGBTI Support Centre and the Macedonian Helsinki Committee reported a further series of threats against three gay men in a shopping centre.

Bias Motivation
Overview of incidents
Mandated bias motivation
Attacks Against People - Violent Attacks
22
Attacks Against People - Threats
2
Attacks against property
1
Mandated bias motivation
Attacks Against People - Violent Attacks
0
Attacks Against People - Threats
0
Attacks against property
1
Attacks Against People - Violent Attacks
0
Attacks Against People - Threats
0
Attacks against property
3
Mandated bias motivation
Attacks Against People - Violent Attacks
8
Attacks Against People - Threats
1
Attacks against property
0
IGO
Bias Motivation
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report

In its report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the United Nations Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) called upon the authorities to take appropriate measures to prevent and end impunity for violence against the LGBT community.

ODIHR Recommendations

ODIHR observes that the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia does not collect data and statistics on hate crimes.