Full Coverage: Serbia and Montenegro

29.05.2006 University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (UNESCO Chair in Cultural policy and Management) and L'Université Lyon - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendès-France) announce the start of the Masters Programme in Cultural Policy and Management (Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans)

29.05.2006 The European Agency for Reconstruction is seeking proposals to support the National Strategy for Resolving the Problems of Refugees and IDPs in the implementation of an assistance programme for the displaced in Montenegro, with financial assistance from the CARDS programme of the European Communities.

29.05.2006 A regional network of free-lance journalists of Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav republics was established in Belgrade, at the regional meeting organized by the International Federation of Journalists IFJ and the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS).

29.05.2006 The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro is alarmed by recent activities of the Republican Broadcasting Agency (RBA) Council. While the OSCE acknowledges the fact that an independent regulatory body should be entrusted with the authority to allocate broadcasting licences, it calls on the Council to respect national law and international standards, as well as decisions of judicial bodies such as the Supreme Court.

25.05.2006 The media campaign for the Montenegro Referendum was conducted correctly, but in the field work of the activists a number of inadequate actions were registered that could qualify as pressure on the voters, states the CEMI Centre for Monitoring in its Final Report on the Monitoring of Referendum Process. The Report provides a global evaluation of the overall referendum campaign, the work of the referendum bodies, as well as the conduct of the actual ballot day and the atmosphere after the results were announced.

25.05.2006 Montenegro's vote for independence closes a political chapter in former Yugoslavia, but Vesna Goldsworthy finds that the map of the heart is not so neatly redrawn.

24.05.2006 The Na Dobrom Putu (On the Right Track) information centre opened a competition for suppot to small projects by associations that provide assistance to persons with impaired development. The total amount of the grant fund is 2,000 EUR.

24.05.2006 On the night of May 12, 2006, unknown perpertrators wrote graffiti on the building which houses the offices of Lingua NGO in Kraljevo, with threatening messages such as "Death to Servants to America", "Traitors", "Long live Ratko Mladic", and the symbols of the neo-nazi organization "Stormfront".

22.05.2006 The famous work by the radical sociologist Mary McIntosh, Homosexual Role is finally available in Serbian language. The translation by Milan Djurica is available at the www.gay-serbia.com web-site.

22.05.2006 According to last estimates made by CESID (Centre for Democracy and Free Elections) 55.3 percent of citizens of Montenegro voted for independent Montenegro at the referendum held yesterday.

19.05.2006 The Montenegrin media covered the issues and developments surrounding the referendum and the future state and legal status of Montenegro correctly and professionally, shows the monitoring of media coverage implemented by the Association of Young Journalists (AYJ).

19.05.2006 The City of Belgrade opened a competition for funding of projects implemented by civil and nongovernmental organizations in 2006.

19.05.2006 The B.a.B.e. group for women human rights invites all interested people to the presentation of publications and independent video production realized under the Women and Media media programme.

18.05.2006 The CESID (Centre for Free Elections and Democracy), in cooperation with the CEMI (Centre for Monitoring) from Podgorica, will monitor the referendum on the state status of Montenegro in all ballot stations, announced CESID.

18.05.2006 The William Davidson Institute (WDI) and ProConcept organize a five-day training for managers of Serbian non-governmental organizations.

17.05.2006 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against the Kurir daily newspaper, on charges of hate-speech used in the article "Pristina Football Fans Carry a Banner 'Serbia Like Nokia, Ever Smaller and Smaller'".

17.05.2006 On the occasion of May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Labris, organization for lesbian human rights, invited once again the Serbian Medical Society to publicly confirm that homosexuality is not a disease.

15.05.2006 The Care International in SCG and the Democratic Association of the Roma started the first educational programme for collectors of materials for recycling. The programme consists of three-month series of trainings in the fields of occupational protection, traffick regulations education, sorting of waste, technology for recycling of waste plastics and paper and environmental protection.

10.05.2006 The EXIT Festival again invites the non-governmental organizations from Southeast Europe (Croatia, B&H, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro) to present themselves to the visitorst of the EXIT 06 Festival (July 6-9, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad).

09.05.2006 The “Objection for Peace” Caravan 2006 visited Belgrade on Saturday, May 6.In downtown Belgrade, on the Terazije square, a performance was held from which anti-war and peace messages were send.