Serbia

03.07.2008 The Centre for Development of Civil Society is concerned about the fact that instead of a Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, the competences in that area will be placed under the Ministry of Justice. CDCS finds that solution harmful in a variety of ways.

26.06.2008 The 3rd Southeastern Europe Broadband Conference and Expo that gathered world leading vendors, regional operators, service providers, regulatory agencies, channel partners, and the corporate customer sector in the extensive coverage of Southeastern Europe\'s telecommunications industry transition in the internet era, concludes its work today in Belgrade.

25.06.2008 The round-table discussion, organized under the auspices of the Civil Society Public Advocacy Initiative programme by the Civic Initiatives, in cooperation with ECNL Budapest and the Government Team for implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy, gathered about 60 participants. The debate, Institutional Models for Cooperation between the State and Civil Society was held at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade.

12.06.2008 Centar za razvoj civilnog društva (CRCD) izašao je, povodom dvogodišnjice od osnivanja Službe za ljudska i manjinska prava Vlade Srbije, sa komentarima i ocenama dosadašnjih aktivnosti Službe.

10.06.2008 NAKED FACTS is the fifth anti-trafficking campaign, under the motto Women are Not Meat; Children are not Slaves; People are not a commodity , implemented by ASTRA NGO. The campaign aims to raise public awareness and to warn the state institutions about the problem of trafficking in human beings in Serbia which is often neglected, in a society increasingly tollerant to violence and human rights violations.

09.06.2008 The Center of Modern Skills (CMS) warns the public about the fact that the new Skupština (Serbian Parliament) again doesn`t provide for adequate representation of women. The official lists of Members of Parliament announced by the State Election Commission show that just 21.6 percent of the MPs are women.

27.05.2008 Zoran Šangut, President of Vukovar 1991 Associatio, and Sandra Orlović, deputy Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre, filed a criminal lawsuit against 54 named commanding officers and guards in prisoner camps in Serbia to the office of Vladimir Vukčević, Was Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia.

22.05.2008 The Novi Pazar Initiative for Change, a group of several local organizations and branches of national organizations, expressed, in an open letter to President Boris Tadić, their discontent with his decision to invite Sulejman Ugljanin and his SDA into the coalition that could make the new parliamentary and Government coalition.

20.05.2008 The Peace Caravan 2008 arrived in Pancevo on May 14 and its activities took place the next day, May 15, including a street action in the City Park and a concert later in the night. The Caravan set up the stands, panels and exhibition of photos and started the activities that were concluded with a concert by `Prljavi dripci` from Belgrade and `Štuka` from Pancevo.

13.05.2008 Javier Solana, The EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Ollie Rehn, European Enlargement Commissioner, greeted the peaceful and free Parliamentary Elections in Serbia of May 11, 2008.