Multimedia and Resources

25.06.2008 A group of gay internet users noted that the Croatian internet space lacks a common starting point for homosexual men and women, bisexual, trans-gender and queer persons to get information and to get active, so they decided to launch a new internet portal to mark the Pride Week in Zagreb.

07.05.2008 Representation of LGBT Population on the websites of the Extreme Right in Serbia is the graduate thesis of Marija Radoman, student at the Sociology Department of the School of Philosophy in Belgrade.

06.05.2008 The Youth Programme of BH Radio 1 is a new programming package of the national public radio and most popular radio station in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

26.03.2008 On the occasion of Document Freedom day, apc.au (formally c2o / Toy Satellite) releases 10 years of essays, lectures, reports and articles dealing with information communication technologies for cultural development (ICT4CD).

20.03.2008 The informal group of citizens of Sarajevo that has protected, in cooperation with a number of NGOs, for over a month now against, as they say, incompetent municipal and cantonal authorities and deteriorating security situation in Sarajevo, announced its demands in public.

17.03.2008 The Informal Citizen Group, organizer of peaceful protests against incompetent municipal and cantonal governments prepared a presentation with answers to questions like who are they, how many of them are there, what demands they have, possible political motivation of their protests.

11.03.2008 The DESA Statistics Division has just launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can search and down load a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.

10.03.2008 More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress towards gender equity in recent years, finds the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008 that Social Watch launched here as a contribution to the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women that ended on March 8, the International Women’s Day.

22.02.2008 Last Saturday, February 16, the BORNA – Blogging Committee for Referendum on NATO was created in Zagreb. The Committee gathers individual bloggers active on blog.hr and bloger.hr portals, and on the group portal pollitika.com.

17.01.2008 The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a meeting convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the international effort to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education.

20.12.2007 The CESI civil organization developed, on basis of analysis of election results and behaviour of political parties during the elections campaign, a set of Recommendation for Increased Political Participation of Women, intended for political parties.

12.12.2007 The Zelena akcija environmental association presented its Zero waste manual. The manual aims to show that waste management is much wider than the simple matters of waste dumps and incinerators.

11.12.2007 After 8 years of operation, the Stability Pact - often referred to as the Marshall Plan for the Balkans - is phasing out, writes Risto Karajkov, a Postgraduate Student of International Development in Bologna and NGO activist.

05.12.2007 On the occasion of December 5 – the International Volunteer Day, the Youth Cultural Centre from Bitola promoted the Manual on International Volunteer Service, part of the series of manuals prepared by the Council of Europe, translated in Macedonian for the first time.

03.12.2007 The internet is a global public space that must be open, affordable and accessible to all. As more and more people gain access to this space, many remain excluded. Like the process of globalisation with which it has been closely intertwined, the spread of internet access takes place with uneven results and often exacerbates social and economic inequalities.

24.10.2007 Adding to their long history of reports on the study of Internet filtering, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has compiled, and today released, a bulletin on the recent demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government\'s shutdown of the Internet there Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma

13.09.2007 Recent years marked the growing visibility of the youth employment issue on the global development agenda. That trend has been caused by the growing absolute numbers of young people on the planet and the rising unemployment rates.

14.08.2007 A new version of the NGO Directory of the Centre for Development of Non-Profit Sector is posted at http://www.crnps.org.yu/direktorijum/index.asp.

09.07.2007 The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.

04.07.2007 Under the auspices of the Speak Up Europe campaign, the European Movement in Serbia, in cooperation with the International European Movement, launched the What has Europe Ever Done For Us web-site.