New wave of protests happen in Republic of Macedonia after the document called Tirana's platform influenced the post-election period in the country and process of the government formation. Shortly after President Gjorgje Ivanov received the 67 signatures of parliamentarians submitted by Zoran Zaev, president of SDSM, protest erupted in Skopje. Peaceful gatherings aimed refusal of Tirana's platform and preservation of unitary character of the state.
New wave of protests happen in Republic of Macedonia after the document called Tirana's platform influenced the post-election period in the country and process of the government formation. Shortly after President Gjorgje Ivanov received the 67 signatures of parliamentarians submitted by Zoran Zaev, president of SDSM, protest erupted in Skopje. Peaceful gatherings aimed refusal of Tirana's platform and preservation of unitary character of the state.
Protest of opposition, members of NGO’s and residents in Skopje with requests to the government and Constitutional Court in Macedonia.
Two activists throw with the paint balls toward the facade of the Triumphal Arch “Macedonia” in Skopje. Gate “Macedonia” is part of the project “Skopje2014,” which created disagreements in the society.
The photographs document the protests of the opposition and members of civil society in Skopje against the measures of the government. Part of the protest include expression of public anger with throwing paint to facades of the state institutions.
Members of the “Colorful Revolution” celebrate and dense on the street after police did not allow their movement toward the police station to protest for police questioning of the activists.
Members of the opposition, activists cheer in support of throwing paint balls toward building of the Assembly with an improvised slingshot.
Members of the “Colorful Revolution” and their supporters celebrate during the protests in Skopje against the government.
An activist with a mask prepares to throw an improvised slingshot with a paint ball during the protests in Skopje.
An activists pulls back an improvised slingshot with a paint ball from a sieve during protests in Skopje.
An activist paints facade of the Ministry of Justice building in Skopje during the “Colorful Revolution,” protests.
A person waves the flag of the “Colorful Revolution” protests, while the protesters march on the boulevard in Skopje.
Bilal,13, from Syria, is a self-described geek. He wants to study and learn English and German, but he needs new books and wants to reach Germany as soon as possible to go to school and learn more about the world. He sits on an abandoned car while translating verbs from Arabic to English.
This collection of photos documents daily life in the Idomeni camp where refugees live in limbo on the border between Greece and Macedonia. Some refugees who were photographed are identified by an initial because they did not want their names used.
R., 32, from Syria kisses her nephew. They live in an abandoned train at Idomeni railway station in Greece, at the border with Macedonia. Some 12,000 refugees live in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni.
A night shot of the border fence between Greece and Macedonia at the Idomeni camp.
Raha, 41, from Syria, is in Idomeni with two sisters. She waits to reach her two sons, aged 15 and 20, who arrived in Germany months ago. Raha is still stuck here after two months.
A Kurdish girl spends an evening playing with a recycled table football game at Idomeni refugee camp, a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where thousands of refugees are stranded.
Protests in Skopje continued in a sixth day in a row on April 18th, 2016 after turbulences in recent political crisis in the Republic of Macedonia.
Video shows people demonstrating as protests in Skopje continued in a sixth day in a row on April 18th, 2016 after turbulences in recent political crisis in the Republic of Macedonia.
Panagiota Vasileiadou, also called "the Idomeni refugees' grandmother" is a 82 year-old Greek woman who houses five Syrian refugees in her home.
In a improvised cinema, refugee children watch a cartoon movie at the makeshift camp of Idomeni, in Greece. Movies keep refugee children entertained, despite all the sorrow and trials they face.
A Pakistani group of between 50 and 70 refugees live in an abandoned hotel building close to the Greek-Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece.
Syrian refugees have dinner along the railway at Idomeni camp. The railway connection has been blocked for a month by refugees who are protesting Macedonia's decision not to let them through. Police have tried to clear the tracks but refugees still resist and occupy the railway while waiting for an European solution.
Asif, 23, from Pakistan, is living in an abandoned building with about 50 people along the highway that runs close to the border with Macedonia.
S. is from Pakistan and he lives in an abandoned building along the highway that runs close to the Greek border with Macedonia. He shares a little room with four to six other "travel mates". They have been waiting and surviving here for two months without electricity, windows, doors and bathrooms.
Opposition supporters demonstrated in Skopje, Macedonia on April 12 and 13 demanding the resignation of President Gjorge Ivanov after he issued pardons to 56 members of the ruling party and opposition linked to a wiretapping scandal.
00:30 Protesters (Macedonian)
"Prison"; "Prison"
00:40 Woman (Macedonian)
"If someone ask you, 'who are you defending?' "I am clean, I am defending the Constitution of Republic of Macedonia.”
M., 24, from Aleppo, shows shocking evidence of torture in Assad's prisons. He says he was arbitrarily jailed and tortured for 4 months. M. is living in the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni, Greece.
Around 12.000 refugees live in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni at the Greek border with Macedonia.
A Kurdish boy sits by a fire in a railway repairs hangar where thousand of refugees have set up their tents at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni.
Refugees queue daily for food in Idomeni, a railway station in Greece at the border with Macedonia.
People protest after mouldy food was given to a group of refugees in Idomeni camp, Greece. Part of a meal distributed by a Greek NGO was delivered rotten and was soon thrown out, leaving people very angry and exhausted.
Kurdish families have dinner along the tracks in an abandoned hangar of Idomeni railway station near the Greek border with Macedonia.
Idomeni railway station at night. More than 10,000 refugees are living in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni, Greece. The camp stretches out for hundreds of meters along the railway tracks that cross the border between Greece and Macedonia.
A veiled woman walks during the misty dawn at Idomeni refugee camp, on the Greek border with Macedonia.
A Muslim woman prays in the early morning at Idomeni refugee camp at the Greek border with Macedonia.
About 12.000 refugees are living in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni. The Idomeni camp stretches out for hundreds of yards along the railway track that crosses the border, and for hundreds of yards on either side. The vast majority sleeps in camping tents set directly on the muddy fields, or the coarse gravel of the railway tracks.
Migrants sit in the cold light of the early morning at Idomeni refugee camp at the Greek border with Macedonia.
"Hotel Hara" is a makeshift refugee camp on the forecourt of a petrol station near the Idomeni refugee camp, on the Greek-Macedonian border.
Overcrowded refugee tents at the transit center for refugees in Tabanovce, Macedonia. About 1000 people are in the refugee camp after closing of the Balkan route. Some of them are waiting more than 21 days stranded at the transit center.
Stranded refugees walk in the mud field on a rainy day close to the transit center for refugees in the village of Tabanovce in Macedonia. About hundred refugees or migrants live at least four days in the green fields after the European Union said that Balkan route has come to an end. After Balkan countries close the borders, some of the refugees and migrants are stranded in the border zones and they can neither return to Serbia nor enter Macedonia in the refugee camp in Tabanovce.