Serbia

20.06.2006 On the occasion of recent demonstration of hate-speech in Serbian Skupstina (the parliament), when Zoran Krasic, MP from the Serb Radical Party, called Ivana Dulic-Markovic, Minister of Agriculture, an "ustasha" from the pulpit, a group of eight NGOs printed a leaflet to remind the public about previous cases of Radicals' involvement in similar incidents.

16.06.2006 The “Ukrstanje” Civic Association, in cooperation with “Forum Syd” and the Novi Sad Youth Club, started the implementation of the Centre for Promotion of Informal Education: Stage 2 – Browsing project, under the sponsorship of the Vojvodina Provincial Secretariat of Youth and Sports and under the auspices of the Youth Policy Action Plan implementation.

13.06.2006 The Horkeskart organization gave a performance in front of several national institutions in Belgrade. The institutions were selected based on the criteria that “... as it is, they make more harm than good”.

13.06.2006 On June 8, 2006, the Argument association and the Centre for Development of Non-Profit Sector (CRNPS), organized the Level of Development of Civil Society in Serbia conference. The conference, supported by UNDP and the European Agency for Reconstruction, was held at the “Metropol” Hotel in Belgrade.

12.06.2006 The Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (National Association of Local Authorities) presented the Handbook for Local Councilors on Inter-ethnic Relations, designed to assist the local self-government representatives in implementation of national equality.

09.06.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre filed criminal charges against the anonymous author and performer of the song titled “Let’s Cut Some Throats”, on charges of inciting of racial, religious and national hatred and intolerance.

02.06.2006 In spite of the decision of the Supreme Court of Serbia, the Security and Information Agency (BIA) didn’t provide, within the legal deadline, the number of people whose communications it wiretapped in 2005, says the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.

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 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.

25.05.2006 The media campaign for the Montenegro Referendum was conducted correctly, but in the field work of the activists a number of inadequate actions were registered that could qualify as pressure on the voters, states the CEMI Centre for Monitoring in its Final Report on the Monitoring of Referendum Process. The Report provides a global evaluation of the overall referendum campaign, the work of the referendum bodies, as well as the conduct of the actual ballot day and the atmosphere after the results were announced.