Full Coverage: Europe

31.05.2006 Achievements of OSCE-supported projects aimed at increasing the participation of women in decision-making processes and bodies were discussed today in Skopje at the conference "Women Can Do It II-2006 Parliamentary Elections."

31.05.2006 The United Nations Association of Albania UNAA mission is to build and mobilize public support/contribution for promoting United Nations goals and objectives in Albania.

31.05.2006 Dusica Radojcic from Zelena Istra environmental NGO reports for Alert that in international conference will be held in Portoroz, Sloveni, on June 5-6, 2006. The conference, Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Adriatic is organized by the Slovenian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Urban Planning, in cooperation with UNEP/MAP INFO/RAC.

31.05.2006 The European Commission has launched a 4.7 million Euros awareness-raising campaign, "You control climate change".

31.05.2006 from Europa portal:
'Climate change is a global problem, and yet each one of us has the power to make a difference.' Make your difference by following some of these tips.

31.05.2006 Despite almost seven years of international administration, the criminal justice system continues to fail victims in Kosovo, an international rights group says a new report.

31.05.2006 The divisions and vested interests that emerged openly yesterday within the European Union over its farm policies threaten to wreck the opportunity for world trade talks to deliver development to poor countries, an international agency warned.

30.05.2006 Topics at the Climate Conference on Saturday 3 June at the London School of Economics include How Bad, How Fast will the climate crisis get?; Alternative energy sources and solutions; Climate change and development; Climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation; Transport; Faith and spirituality; Aviation; Is there a corporate enemy; and much more. No need to book, just turn up.

30.05.2006 The DOSTA! Movement organizes a huge protest concert on June 3, in front of the B&H Parliament (12:00 to 22:00 hours), with performances of socially engaged B&H bands, to express its dissatisfaction with the general situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

30.05.2006 A group of students from the "Metodi Mitevski Brico" high school from Delcevo, won the prestigious Platinum Prize Award for best web-site at the Doors to Diplomacy 2006 award competition, organized by the US State Department. The students won this years award in a strong competition of 306 projects from 46 states in the world.

30.05.2006 Britain's National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education yesterday approved an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions that do not condemn Israel's "apartheid policy".
The decision will have an official shelf life of less than three days, as on Thursday the two unions will merge, and the resolution will only be advisory to the new union.

30.05.2006 The Programme “Improving the Conditions of Children and Youth in BiH” is launching this announcement for the assignment of maximum 9 scholarships for Master’s studies in: Business management; Tourism and Leisure; and, Agro-food Economy.

30.05.2006 On the occasion of May 31, the World No-Tobacco Day, the Union for Prevention of Alcoholism, Nicotinism and Drug-Abuse of Macedonia and "Opstanok" environmental association demanded the urgent adoption of a National Programme for Prevention of Addictions, which will contribute to the state moving the focus of its activities from treatment of consequences to prevention.

30.05.2006 International union groupings have asked European trade representatives to suspend Belarus’s trade preferences because of the Lukashenko regime’s trade union rights violations.

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 Under its “New Role for NGOs in the Process of Design of B&H Public Policies” project, ALDI released the results of the public opinion survey on the work of municipal authorities/administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

29.05.2006 The Ecotopia Biketour the best known global caravan of its type. It includes activists – primarily youth – from many countries of Europe and the world. This year, for the second time in its 16 years of history, the project includes Croatia. After its start in Lithuania, the Biketour will proceed through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia and is expected to arrive to Croatia in September 2006.

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.