Documents: Fundamental rights - Human rights - Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Project “Network 23+” implemented by the European Policy Institute-Skopje and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights aims at providing structured contribution of the civil society in monitoring and assessing the policies included in Chapter 23 of the EU Acquis – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights. This report unifies all the findings, conclusions and recommendations that resulted from the monitoring of the areas structured in Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights into a single coherent entirety. In fact, this is the third Shadow Report published by “Network 23”. The previous two cover the periods of October 2014-July 2015 and July 2015-April 2016. This report encompasses the period between the beginning of May 2016 and the end of January 2018. The report’s period has been extended in order to correspond to the new cycle of European Commission reports, which are to be released in April.

The status of the implementation of the Urgent Reform Priorities in May of 2017.

This report is a sublimate of the conclusions and recommendations drafted on the basis of the monitoring of the areas structured in Chapter 23. The report was drafted during a period of deep political crisis, which resulted from the unsuccessful implementation of the Przino Agreement, as well as the failure to effectuate its main provisions, which were connected with the reform priorities outlined on the basis of the Priebe Report.