Macedonian Women Jurist Association TEMIS Skopje is non governmental, apolitical association established on April 17, 2002 with prime goal: Professional training and exchange of experience for improvement of the women status in social and political life.
Founders of TEMIS are:
; Natasa TRPENOSKA TRENCEVSKA Attorney At Law from Skopje, TEMIS
President
; Biljana PANOVA Attorney At Law from Skopje, Vice President;
; Snezana KALESKA Attorney At Law from Skopje;
; Biljana CAKMAKOVA Attorney At Law from Skopje;
; Ljubica RUBEN Manager of MENS LEGIS and
; Imran OSMANI, Deputy Public Prosecuter of Skopje.
According to the Statute of the Association, Secretary is the only person full time employed in the Association, which is executed by Vesna KOSTOVSKA, Graduate At Law with Bar exam and six years practise as Attorney At Law.
Association numbered 150 members with tendency for enlargement. Members of the Association are mostly the lawyers, Judges, Deputy Public Prosecutors, Notaries, graduated jurists and women from other professions interested in issues which we are dealing with such as psychologists, social workers etc. from different religious and ethnical appertain. TEMIS is open for cooperation with domestic and foreign NGO’s, governmental institutions and other organizations.
MISSION
Through our work we want to generate individual and public awareness that leads to support for our programs and projects aimed at achieving women’s empowerment and gender equality.
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TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk
GOALS
; Human rights protection;
; Improvement of the status of the women in the social and political life;
; Elimination of all forms of violence against women;
; Anti-trafficking legal reform;
; Harmonization of the Macedonian legislation with EU standards.
For successful realization of the determined goals are formed five committees:
1. Committee for cooperation with Domestic Legislative and other Governmental
Bodies and Institutions and NGOs;
2. Committee for relations with International Legal Associations and Institutions;
3. Committee for education;
4. Committee for prevention of the Trafficking with human beings and protection of
the rights of the victims of any kind of violence;
5. Committee for normative activity and harmonization of the National Legislative
with EU Legislative.
Each Committee has it’s own sub-committees organized as a working groups.
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TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk
PROJECTS 2003-2005:
Title of the project:
Anti-trafficking legal reform and public awareness
Length of the project:
March – August 2003
Donor:
OSCE SMMS
DISTRIBUTED FLYERS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN
HUMANS
The aim of this project was to touch the core of this growing problem in Macedonia via the contribution of TEMIS accompanied with all other partners who are acting in combating trafficking in humans in Macedonia.
Realized Project activities:
; Organizing three working seminars for TEMIS members in order to inform them
about this growing problem in the Republic of Macedonia;
; Preparing and distribution of informational flyers and posters with the basic rights
of the victims of trafficking in humans regarding domestic laws and international
documents on several languages distributed all over the country, in print media
as well as in the Transit center;
; Elaboration an Assessment of existing anti-trafficking legislation and legal
obstacles in prosecuting trafficking cases and recommendations for future legal
activities.
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Title of the project:
Anti-trafficking research and training for special categories of victims of trafficking such as juveniles, disabled and mentally ill persons
Length of the project:
August - November 2003
Donor:
International Organization for Migration / IOM
ANALYZE OF DOMESTIC LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS
REGARDING THE JUVENILES
The aim of the project was to analyze the existing legislation for protection of these categories of trafficked victims and training a team of women lawyers to provide legal assistance to these vulnerable categories of victims. The training was organized jointly ________________________________________________________________________
TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk
by IOM and UNICEF. The conclusions and the recommendations from the analysis were submitted to the Sub-commission for protection of the children victims of trafficking in order for elaboration of the National Action Plan for combat trafficking in children.
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Title of the project:
Anti-trafficking legal training for Law students, members of two student organizations
Length of the project:
January - May 2004
Donor:
Institute for Sustainable Communities / ISC
SIX DAYS TRAINING FOR 26 STUDENTS OF LAW ON ISSUE TRAFFICKING IN
HUMANS
Participants were introduced with the issue of trafficking in humans, differences with the prostitution and illegal migration, the legal issues as well as with the direct psychosocial support to the victims.
The project’s objective was the collaboration between TEMIS, the coalition “All for a just trial” and two student organizations in the fight against human traffic. Numerous activities were undertaken in the course of realization of the objective. A six-day-long training was carried out and a Human traffic manual was printed also serving as a working material for the training participants.
The concept of the training was educational training of students, members of the student organizations ELSA (Faculty of Law, St. Cyrilus and Methodis) and ILSA (Faculty of Law, University Southeast Europe), where 26 participants were selected to attend the six-day training on the subject Human Traffic. The training was carried out in three different parts. During the first two days the participants were introduced to the problem of human traffic, especially women and children; differences with prostitution and illegal migration; experiences from the Transit center for human trafficking victims; activities in providing direct psycho-social assistance and support of the victims; prevention activities; the coordinative role of the National Commission in the battle against human traffic; practical exercises were also carried out, where the students worked in groups expressing initiative and active participation.
The second part regarded the legal issues; existing legal regulation; amendments of the Criminal code; procedures of the Public prosecution and the courts in case of criminal act human traffic Article 418 from the Criminal Code of RM; international documents, especially the Palermo protocol; activities of NGO in the prevention and solution of this problem, ect. All exposes grew into long discussions, to the satisfaction of the participants and the organizer, and especially to the pleasure of the trainers that were prepared to answer questions and satisfied the interest of the students with examples from practice.
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TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk
The third part was completely interactive. The movie Lili 4-ever, about the story of a trafficked girl, was shown to the participants, after which a constructive discussion developed on the reasons that drove a young 16 year-old girl into the claws of traffickers. The training ended with the presentation of the Manual for monitoring court cases and monitoring techniques, after which the participants were made familiar with the questionnaire and the ways it is to be filled out. A simulation of a court trial was carried out – a criminal case, followed by filling out the questionnaires by the participants and analyzing the way they were filled out. We are free to say that the students proved themselves as good observers, which was also confirmed by the trainer.
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Title of the project:
Adaptation of the UNICEF guideline for protection of the rights of children victims of trafficking regarding national legislation and elaboration of minimum standards for treatment of children victims of trafficking in Republic of Macedonia Length of the project:
July - October 2004
Donor:
UNICEF
The aim of the project is adaptation of UNICEF guideline for protection of the rights of children victims of trafficking regarding national legislation and elaboration of minimum standards for treatment of children victims of trafficking applicable at national and local level in Republic of Macedonia.
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Title of the project:
Collaboration between NGO’s and governmental institutions on local level in
combat against trafficking in humans
Length of the project:
July - September 2004
Donor:
IREX
ESTABLISHING STRONG LINKS BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS AND
NGO’S
President of TEMIS recently participated in IREX/SECAT anti-trafficking project for the South Eastern European Communities. The gained knowledge and skills were used for
improvement and increased TEMIS capacities regarding collaboration with other NGO’s
and governmental institutions. Jointly with Open Gate, TEMIS realized three monthly projects and were organized three workshops for the representatives of 10 NGO’s and representatives of governmental institutions at local level from the municipalities of NGO’s. Workshops were excellent opportunity for the participants to exchange
information’s and experience of the level of realized communication and collaboration by specific issues.
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TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk
Title of the project:
Capacity building (signed Memo of Understanding)
Length of the project:
July - December 2004
Donor:
IOM
TEMIS and IOM in July 2004 signed Memorandum of Understanding for the period of July-December 2004. The project aims at supporting a longer-term and sustainable strategy of capacity building of all key players involved in the management of migrations as well as in the judicial proceedings against traffickers and smugglers, through extensive activities of training along with European standards.
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Title of the project:
Elaboration of informational material for the rights
Length of the project:
October 2004 – March 2005
Donor:
American Embassy in Republic of Macedonia
Project activities are elaboration of three brochures: for the legal rights of the victims of trafficking regarding new law amendments; directory of activities and services provided by the domestic and international organizations and institutions to the victims; and prevention lessons. Brochures will be distributed all over the country on several languages.
DONORS
ABA CELLI, OSCE SMMS, IOM, ISC, UNICEF, IREX, USA Embassy
CONTACT
Address: Vasil Gorgov No.34
1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel. +389 2 3082 932
Fax. +389 2 3082 933
E-mail info@temis.com.mk
Web site www.temis.com.mk
Natasa Trpenoska Trencevska Biljana Panova
President Vice President
tami@mt.net.mk panova@unet.com.mk
Vesna Kostovska
Secretary
Vesnak_mk@yahoo.com
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TEMIS Skopje
Vasil Gorgov 34 -5a, 1000 Skopje - Tel:+389 2 3082 932
Fax:+389 2 3082 933 – E-mail: info@temis.com.mk