Project
Title:
Legal Office for protection of refugees, seekers
of asylum and people without citizenship
Project
Timeframe: 1991,
ongoing
Project
Beneficiaries:
Refugees from Kosovo and people without citizenship
Activities:
In 2005 “ARKA” provided free legal help
to refugees who live in the Republic of Macedonia as well as other people
without their citizenship.
ARKA staff and lawyers in the organization have
been working with individual applicants for citizenship by providing
financial and legal help, especially for applicants who fulfilled the
terms of Article 14 under the Law on Citizenship.
Project results:
Through project implementation ARKA provided free legal and
financial help to 399 people without citizenship. For some, the process of
obtaining citizenship is finished. The rest of the cases are in process. As a
result of ARKA`s activities we realized the need to continue helping individuals
and families in collecting personal documentation as a basis of obtaining other
human rights.
In 2005, ARKA with financial support from UNHCR,
provided free legal help to refugees in resolving their citizenship status as
well as providing and delivering humanitarian aid (hygienic packets) and New
Years gifts to the children of the displaced families in Kumanovo.
Donor:
UNHCR
