Full Coverage: Serbia and Montenegro

25.12.2006 The Serbian Consumer Association (APOS) announced the election demands of Serbian consumers, prior to the Parliamentary Elections, scheduled for January 21, 2007. APOS aims to promote and improve consumer rights during election campaign.

22.12.2006 The Queeria Group promoted last Tuesday, December 20, the Friends:Prijatelji calendar, created as activist response to the violence and injustice to which the persons different from the socially dominant behavioural patterns are exposed.

21.12.2006 Transparency Serbia invited all political parties that participate in the election campaign to adopt more serious approach to the problem of corruption.

20.12.2006 The discrimination of women is most dominant in Serbian print media, shows a survey of stereotypes, manners and strategies for discrimination of women in print media in SEE, conducted by the MediaCentre Sarajevo. The survey covered the daily press in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia.

20.12.2006 Ten months after B92 started its campaign for construction of a safe house for victims of family violence, and in spite of the bad weather, the construction works on the safe house in Rakovica Municipality were initiated last Monday, December 18.

18.12.2006 The NGO Coalition “Cooperation for a Common Goal” prepared the second draft of the Strategy of Relations between the Government and NGOs in Montenegro, the “NGO Code of Conduct” and the “Structure of Public Funding Financing for NGOs”, and invites all stake-holders to comment on the papers through the Coalition’s web-site.

18.12.2006 The Women in Black, provoked by the decision of the Dutch Government to award medals to the 350 soldiers that stood by and watched the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, sent a letter to the associations of women from Srebrenica, in which they condemned the decision.

12.12.2006 Under the project “Strengthening of Environmental Reporting in Serbia and Montenegro”, supported by the OSCE, the EkoForum, with express permission by the Reuters Fourndation, offers the journalists reporting on environmental issues a variety of materials necessary for their work, translated into Serbian language.

12.12.2006 On the occasion of December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Serbia invited all relevant social actors, especially the state institutions, to contribute to the fight against poverty through protection and strengthening of human rights culture.

12.12.2006 On December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the Association of Handicapped Youth in Montenegro (UMHCG) started the Throw the Bone! media campaign.

08.12.2006 The Serbian Consumer Association (APOS) published the first issue of Consumer Report magazine. The magazine will come out monthly, as a supplement to Danas daily newspaper.

06.12.2006 EU Council of Ministers extended the mandate of the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) for two additional years, until December 31, reports EAR Belgrade office.

06.12.2006 The Civil Society Advocacy Initiative (CSAI), implemented by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), announces a grant competition for experienced Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to support their advocacy activities throughout Serbia.

05.12.2006 Shoqata e të rinjve me aftësi të kufizuara në Mal të Zi (UMHCG), u ka bërë thirrje të gjithë personave kompetentë në këtë vend, që të angazhohen për krijimin e një shoqërie gjithëpërfshirëse të informuar, si dhe, t’i rrisin përpjekjet e tyre për t’iu siguruar këtyre personave, të drejtat e tyre njerëzore dhe në mënyrë të barabartë të marrin pjesë në çështjet ekonomike, sociale dhe politike në Mal të Zi.

05.12.2006 The Association of Disabled Youth of Montenegro (UMHCG) invited all competent persons to get involved in the creation of inclusive information society and increase their efforts to secure full human rights for disabled persons and opportunity to participate in economic, social and political events and developments in Montenegro, on equal basis.

04.12.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) condemns the decision of the organizing committee of the New Festival of AuteurÂ’s Film to remove from its programme The Palace of the Sun, Lou YeÂ’s film in Chinese-French co-production.