Full Coverage: Serbia and Montenegro

30.05.2007 There was no significant progress or changes in protection of children rights in Serbia, concludes the Children Rights Centre in its Report on Status of Children Rights for 2006.

29.05.2007 After it announced its action “Placate Your Hero”, the BIRO Movement received a number of threats from members of various neo-Nazi organizations. Fearing the united neo-Nazis and nationalist may direct their aggression towards BIRO activists, the movement decided to conduct its action a day earlier.

21.05.2007 Serbia finally got its Ministry of Youth and Sports as a result, among others, of the efforts invested by the Youth Coalition of Serbia. The first Minister of Youth and Sports will be Snezana Samardzic Markovic.

07.05.2007 Branislav Grkovic, participant in NetNovinarÂ’s Investigative Journalism and Organized Crime training programme, won the award of the Serbian Association of Independent Journalists (NUNS) for investigative story.

04.05.2007 On the occasion of the Ganja March scheduled to taka place in BelgradeÂ’s Republic Square, on May 5 (Saturday), the members of extreme right organizations known as the United Patriots or United Serb Nationalists, announced a counter-march and threatened to attack the participants of the global movement for abolition of prohibition on marihuana.