Full Coverage: Civil society

29.03.2007 Two months after the adoption of Government’s Strategy for Cooperation with the Civil Sector, the majority of NGOs, working on both national and local level remain largely uninformed about the Strategy’s contents.

29.03.2007 Participate at the CIVICUS World Assembly, which is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.
Meet high-profile speakers and grassroots activists from all over the world at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre - Glasgow, Scotland 23 to 27 May 2007.

29.03.2007 The Civic Initiatives, in cooperation with the European Centre for Non-profit Law (ECNL) from Budapest, and under the auspices of the Civil Society Advocacy Initiative – CSAI programme implemented by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) prepares a Manual on Tax System for Civic Association in Serbia. The manual is financed by USAID.

29.03.2007 Citisens of Indian capital New Delhi and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) appealed to the government to stop and review the brutal onslaught on thousands of trees lining the roads of the city for making way for the High Capacity Bus Service Corridor and widening of roads for more lanes.

29.03.2007 UNESCO has launched an online platform to make available training and capacity-building resources developed by a variety of stakeholders in myriad subjects, including literacy, computers, business, environment and community development.

26.03.2007 After the indications that the Democratic Party (DS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) may soon reach agreement on the new Government, in which Vojislav Kostunica would keep the office of the Prime Minister, several NGOs invited the citizens to join their Veto Kostunica campaign.

23.03.2007 Provoked by the recent statements by the Speaker of the Sabor (Croatian Parliament) and the Prime Minister that the Government doesn’t plan to call for a referendum on Croatian entry into the NATO alliance, as well as the general communication strategy adopted by the Government on that issue, the Peace Studies Centre and Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Centre from Osijek prepared an open letter to Croatian political leadership.

16.03.2007 On Wednesday, March 15, the Open Society Fund B&H presented the results of the survey “Assessment of Democratic Development in B&H”.

16.03.2007 The Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) announces the 6th Youth MIRamiDA – Peace Building Training for Youth Activists from Croatia. The training takes place in Pula, April 13-20, and the deadline for application expires on March 23, 2007.

15.03.2007 The CESI Education, Counselling and Research Centre, in partnership with the Open Media Group (OMG), starts the implementation of the National Campaign for Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. The campaign aims to raise youth awareness about this problem and prevent gender-based violence.

14.03.2007 OneWorld South Asia held its Sixth Annual Regional Meeting (ARM) at the Mirabel Resort Hotel, Dhulikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal on 27 - 28 February 2007. Around 200 delegates from civil society, government, academia, media, and the corporate sector across South Asia reflected on the theme Midway to MDGs: Accelerating progress through ICTs and adopted the Kathmandu Declaration, which demands concerted efforts to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

13.03.2007 The Millennium Centre for Civil Society Development published Future of Civil Society, a book of speeches by assassinated Prime Minister Djindjic, his essays on conditions in the civil society, but also texts and essays by Vukasin Pavlovic from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Zoran Stojiljkovic and Srecko Mihajlovic from the Social Sciences Institute.

12.03.2007 New Delhi-based NGO working on media issues - Centre for Media Studies - is holding a conference, Communication for Social Development: Discourse and Practice at the south Indian city of Hyderabad from April 12-14, 2007. The three-day event is being held in collaboration with the University of Hyderabad.

06.03.2007 Vanja Calovic, Director of the Network for Affirmation of Nongovernmental Sector – MANS, and Veselin Bajceta, Assistant to the MANS Anti-Corruption programme, were detained on Sunday, March 4, by Podgorica Police, during the “KAP Spends, Who Pays?”

01.03.2007 MOST Civic Association presented its publication “My Representative”, which offers findings from the monitoring of the work of MPs in the Sobranie of the Republic of Macedonia for the period August 2006-January 2007. The booklet didn’t aim to analyze the work and behaviour of MPs or comment on them, but to present the pure data as collected.