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31.03.2006 After three years of successful work in the region, beginning of 2006, OneWorld Southeast Europe registered as a non profit foundation named “oneworld – platform southeast europe” (owpsee), based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On April 3 and 4 (Monday, Tuesday) there will be a launch event hosted in Sarajevo to mark the ocassion.

31.03.2006 The internet forum of the “Stormfront” neo-Nazi organization in Serbian language again carried threats and calls for concrete direct action against the activists of several NGOs in Serbia.

29.03.2006 The World Economic Forum, in cooperation with INSEAD, published the “Networked Readiness Index” of the Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006.

29.03.2006 The Skopje United Nations Association (SUNA) presented yesterday several concrete proposals for changes in the Draft-Law on Donation and Sponsorship in the Public Domain.

29.03.2006 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights submitted its request to the Serbian Skupstina (the Parliament) for urgent appointment of Citizens’ Advocate, an institution that would lay the ground for the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman.

28.03.2006 Gjakova/Djakovica Municipality and UNDP Kosovo launched a new project that will include the Millennium Development Goals in the Municipal development strategy, in an event that took place in Gjakova/Djakovica, on Monday, 27 March 2006.

27.03.2006 The cooperation between the environmentalist groups and the media in providing information to the public about environmental protection was the topic discussed in the workshop held on March 24 in Slavonski Brod, held by representatives of Osijek Greens, on invitation by BEUZ (Brod Environmental Association “Zemlja”).

27.03.2006 The Coalition for Women and Youth Participation in Politics and Women's political groups, with the support by the Group of Women Members of Parliament of Albania, submitted a petition to the Office of the President of the Republic Alfred Moisiu, Jozefina Topalli, the President of the Parliament, and the Leaders of Political Parties in Albania, expressing their concern and demanding greater representation of women in Albanian politics and decision-making processes.

27.03.2006 The Kulturpunkt Portal reports that the European Cultural Foundation, HIVOS and the Open Society Institute established a new fund for financing of NGOs active in the cultural sector in the Western Balkans countries.

24.03.2006 The Board of Kosovo Women Members of Parliament organized a national conference on the topic: "How are we organized to fight the trafficking with human beings in Kosovo". A number of international and local representatives and entities that work on treatment as well as fight against trafficking in human beings took part in the conference. The conference emphasized that Kosovo is moving from a transit country, which it was before the war, to a destination country of trafficking.