Protection Of One's Living Environment Case Study

4.3.3. The protection of one’s living environment in RM
The environment legislation of RM is determined by the international convention regarding the environment, ratified by the government of RM, such as: UN Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer with the Montreal Protocol, UNECE Convention on Access to Information, UN Convention on Biological Diversity with the Cartagena Protocol etc. So referring to this ratification of international conventions, the RM has taken the obligation to incorporate them in its environmental legislation.
In RM the protection of one’s living environment is protected in the Constitution of RM:
“Every person has the right to healthy environment. Everyone has a duty to protect and promote the environment
The RM in protecting its citizens living environment has two levels of obligation: fist the obligation to protect environment and nature, and second the obligation for permanent improvement of environment and nature. The first obligation derives from human rights to live in a healthy environment. RM has also adopted a National Action Plan for Environmental Protection, so this action plan is regulated in Article 13 of the Law for protection and promotion of environment, Environment and nature. But how this National Action Plan is put in function in RM is a clearly seen. RM is one of the most polluted countries, and this is recently demonstrated by a wave of protests organized in Tetova, about the air pollution. In this country the presence of harmful particles in the air PM10 continues to be over 10 times higher than the allowed rate.
If someone commits an offence toward the environment the sanction will take place, so those offences are imposed to fines, warning, prohibition of the exercise of the profession, activities or duty and expulsion of aliens, for those offences are imposed
Right to recognition of one’s gender in RM
Macedonia has failed to harmonize this rule with its legislation and enforcement mechanism. According to Mirjana Najchevska, ex-president of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Macedonia stated that: our regulation offer freedom of exercising one’s sexual orientation, but don’t offer protection from any discrimination.
So one thing is clear, the law should be recovered to provide legal recognition and give identity documents to a person who lives as other than men or women. Many member states have recognized that some people are not identified as men or women and ensure them legal documents, such as birth certificate and passports, which respect their non-binary gender . All process Reports explicitly conclude that the national antidiscrimination legislation is not aligned with demands of the EU and the position of transgender persons is worrying. According to Helsinki Committee of Macedonia the Ministry of Justice and Interior have given no information regarding to the position of transgender persons in Macedonia, does they have the right to change their personal information or not, or their Master Citizen number ( which contains information on the person’s