Full Coverage: South East Europe

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

31.01.2007 The Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonian (FOSIM) and the Ministry of the Interior signed an agreement for cooperation, which obligates FOSIM to supply technical assistance of total value of 40,000 EUR to the Ministry.

31.01.2007 The “I Love Pula!” civic initiative organized a protest walk, on January 20, 2007, to express its opposition of construction and development works in Pula’s public parks.

30.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania-CRCA, a major children rights organisation, announced today that it has started the procedures to open a branch of the organisation in Prishtina, the capital of UN administered province of Kosovo(a).

30.01.2007 Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged Albanian parliamentarians today to ensure that media regulation takes into account the abundance of channels that digital television transmission enables as they prepare licencing regulations.

30.01.2007 In 1996, a group of students, with financial assistance from the Montenegro Open Society Institute, started the work on the “Juventas” Youth Magazine. This initiative later transformed into the OKC Juventas (Youth Cultural Centre). The exact date was January 29, 1996.

29.01.2007 B&H Delegation, led by the Secretary of Ministry of Security Bakir Dautbasic travelled to Brussels, yesterday, January 28, to start the second three-day round of negotiations with the European Commission on relaxed visa regime and readmission.

29.01.2007 Last Thursday, January 25, the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities was promoted at the Members of Parliament Club in Skopje.

26.01.2007 After prolonged attempts to get the truth about what happened to their children killed while serving in the Army, in suspect circumstances, from the Army and other state institutions, their parents established the “Parents in Black” Association, as an organized attempt to get to the truth.

26.01.2007 The Megjasi Children Embassy launched a campaign to prevent the violence against children in Macedonia. The campaign was provoked by the recent incidents involving beatings of little children that ultimately lead to their deaths.

26.01.2007 The Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past, the Humanitarian Law Centre from Belgrade and the Sarajevo based Research and Documentation Centre, organize the Second International Conference on Finding the Truth after the end of war and hostilities, in Zagreb’s Sheraton Hotel, February 8-9, 2007. The first conference was held in Sarajevo in May 2006.

25.01.2007 Bebac non-governmental organization launched a campaign to improve the status of pregnant women in Serbia, inviting the general public and the competent state institutions to respect the moral and civilized rules for treatment of pregnant women.

25.01.2007 At its session of January 23, the Government of Macedonia adopted the Strategy for Cooperation with Civil Sector for the period 2007-2011, with the Action Plan for its implementation.

24.01.2007 The Association of Women Initiative (AWIN) and the Gender and Ethnicity Research Centre (Altera MB from Budapest, Hungary), will present on Thursday, January 25, the results of the sociological research - Gender Barometer in Serbia 2006: Social Position of Women and Men.

24.01.2007 Provoked by the recent events surrounding the removal of Jadranka Cigelj from the position of the head of the Associations’ Bureau, the security checks on the members of the Civil Society Development Council and the mutual blame-game between Cigelj and the Vice-President of the Government, 15 Croatian NGOs wrote and open letter to the Government.

24.01.2007 Last week, the regional women portal www.ekviva.net was official launched. At the moment, the portal gathers information on women issues, as well as civil society topics, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an international editorial office with editors sitting in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Belgrade.

24.01.2007 The International Organization for Migration started the Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals –TRQN Project, aimed to contribute to reconstruction and development efforts in Afghanistan, B&H, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

23.01.2007 Last Thursday, January 18, 2007, representatives of 15 non-governmental organizations interrupted the “Associations Day” event, organized by the Governmental Associations’ Bureau, with a protest rally.

23.01.2007 The Parliamentary Elections in Serbia proceeded in line with international standards, reports the International Election Observation Mission (IEOM). The Elections provided the citizens with a true opportunity to select from a wide array of political platforms and were conducted in accordance with OSCE criteria and the Council of Europe standards on democratic elections, yet, there are certain provisions in election legislation that need to be reviewed, claims IEOM.

23.01.2007 This analysis, prepared in late 2005, immediately after the adoption of the current National Information Society Strategy (NISP), attempt to identify the gender issues, obtain information and raise awareness on the gender dimension of Information and Communication Technologies.