Full Coverage: South East Europe

28.12.2006 The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Srpska and B.a.B.e., under the auspices of the Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN), organize the “Situation with Sexual and Gender Minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia”.

27.12.2006 OXO non-governmental organization presente, for the night year in a row, the “eco”-calendars and teachers’ manuals that will be distributed to pupils and teachers in pre-school and elementary education institutions in Macedonia.

26.12.2006 Last Wednesday, December 20, the Constitutional Court ruled to annul the provision from the 2004 Law on the Rights of Veterans of the Homeland War and Members of their Families, which gave the right to veterans, their children and children of victims of war to direct enrolment in secondary and higher education institutions, provided that they passed the lower limit for necessary points in entry exam.

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.

25.12.2006 Activists of Right to a City initiative and Zelena Akcija environmental organization demanded detailed information on the project to develop the Lower-City block in Zagreb, between Varsavska, Gunduliceva, Ilica, Preobrazenska Streets and the Petar Preradovic Square.

22.12.2006 Under the “Local Governance and Youth” project, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) will organized three training programmes (between December 19 and 23, 2006) dedicated to educate municipal officials charged with youth issues, youth counsellors and young people involved in various organizations, on development of local youth policies.

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.

22.12.2006 Deltathree Ltd., a licensed Macedonian telephone services operator, signed a partnership agreement with “Peoplecall”, prominent Spanish telephone services provider. The agreement secures Deltathree a full access to Peoplecall’s infrastructure and networks.

21.12.2006 Yesterday, December 20, the NGO Infocentre from Skopje, in cooperation with the Youth Education Forum (MOF), organized a debate on the topic “Do the Traditional Media Lose the Young Audiences?” The debate took place at the Club of the Members of Parliament in Skopje.

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.

20.12.2006 The new modernised and enlarged Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) was signed today at the South East European summit of Prime Ministers in Bucharest. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rucker, together with Kosovo Minister for Trade and Industry Bujar Dugolli and Deputy Head of UNMIK Pillar IV Andreas Wittkowsky, participated in the signing ceremony on behalf of Kosovo.

19.12.2006 The Coalition for Promotion of Women, Youth and Minorities in Politics, in cooperation with youth forums of political parties, organised today the Forum of all Youth Leaders with the aim to seek ways to increase the cooperation and communication between the organisations on common youth issues.

19.12.2006 The “...Homophobes are Human, Too” Campaign, prepared for Queer Zagreb by Bruketa&Zinic Advertising Agency, was selected among the 3,000 works submitted for the Creativity Annual Award in the U.S.

19.12.2006 The Citizens Pact for SEE (CPSEE), a Novi Sad, Serbia based NGO working to abolish the strict visa regime installed by EU countries for citizens of Western Balkans, presented its new web-site (Need Visa) offering information about necessary documents and procedures to visa seekers.

18.12.2006 Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 19, 2006, at 17:00 hours, the Mediacentre Sarajevo will host the round-table discussion for journalists on the topic of Presumption of Innocence Principle and its Application in Media and Judiciary.

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.

15.12.2006 The Citizens’ Pact for SEE launched the Guide to Visas website, dedicated to all people who need information on travel to most European Countries.