Completion
Civil completed the Global Week of Action against Gun Violence in the Republic of Macedonia. During the Week of Action (WoA), Civil has organized several events and made contact with numerous journalists, citizens, NGOs, and institutions.
Support
The WoA was conducted in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia. The WoA is a regular part of the Annual Program of Civil, which is supported by the Civica Mobilitas Program, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, implemented by the Center for Institutional Development.
Activities
At the beginning of the WoA, Civil organized a press conference, attended by journalists of four national TV broadcasters, several local TV and radio stations, and various news agencies and daily newspapers in the country.
The slam poetry event Words Against Bullets was organized at the very beginning of the WoA, right on midnight between Sunday and Monday (June 12/13).
In cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the MOI, Civil has organized a panel discussion Gun Culture Amongst Youth and Prevention and a lecture Gun Culture and Arms Control for teachers, parents, NGO representatives, municipality officials, and youth.
At the stand of Civil, placed in the center of the capital, our activists disseminated thousands of awareness raising materials (message cards, leaflets, and badges).
A DJ event (XhaD Against Guns), film screening (My First Bullet), and other events took place at various locations and time, aimed at awareness raising on arms control issues.
Inspired by citizens and participants to our events, we extracted three target groups to reinforce our public message: the government, all citizens, and the leaders of religious communities in the Republic of Macedonia. This is to make sure that the action against gun violence continues beyond the end of the WoA, as it is supposed to be.
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