Democracy and human rights

The Western Balkans 6 Strategy Group strongly condemns the latest government-orchestrated attacks on civil society in Serbia and urges pro-democracy actors, EU institutions and political leaders to take a firm stand against this repression. 

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Therefore, one of the key points of interest for the public is how much the VMRO-DPMNE party has changed in the past seven years under Mickoski’s leadership and how much it has distanced itself from the past behavior.

Moving forward, it is imperative to strengthen mechanisms for safeguarding the rights and safety of those targeted by anti-gender mobilizations.

It took a decade for this made-up idea of “gender ideology” to gain traction, inspiring large-scale mobilizations. Only after the economic recession in the first decade of the new millennium, after the “migrant crisis” and after the rise of populist politics, the time was ripe for the idea of “gender ideology” to gain mobilizing power.

The full and strategic alignment of policies and strategies between the United States and the EU regarding the Western Balkans region needs to be prioritized in the current challenging security context. It has worked before and will work again.

This is now an opportunity to fix things. If mistakes are made and they were not deliberate and systematic, if they were not organised, if they happened because BiH’s transition process was extremely difficult and because BiH is truly unique in comparison to other countries due to its multiculturalism and all the people who live here, as well as its geopolitical position, this is now an opportunity for the international community to demonstrate that it will stand with the citizens, not with the political actors who are the producers of the conflict.

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