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21.04.2006 In a press conference organized yesterday in Belgrade, representatives of Kosovo Serbs, Milan Ivanovic and Marko Jaksic declared that UNHCR and WHO are compiling a plan in Denmark for settling of more than 40.000 Kosovo Serbs in Central Serbia after the solution of Kosovo’s status.

13.04.2006 At the beginning of April of this year, the Labris Organization for Lesbian Human Rights opened its psychological counselling to support lesbians and women of alternative (non-heterosexual) sexual preferences.

11.04.2006 The main topic of discussion of the fourth Annual Conference of the Kosovo Bosniacs Forum, held last Saturday in Prishtina, were the economic problems of the Bosniak community in Kosovo. The Conference requested, once again, full equality for Bosniacs to and their inclusion in all areas of living.

10.04.2006 Four daily papers in Kosovo and four in Serbia, have been monitored, by the member NGO’s of the Kosovo Initiative Program (KIP), which is supported by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), on the manner of reporting on return field, Kosovo’s status and Kai Eide’s report. Project has been led by the nongovernmental organization "Initiative for Peace" in cooperation with NGO “Sfida" in Kosovo, and "Fractal" as well as SDF from Belgrade. The project was supported by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network- BIRN offices in Prishtina and London.

10.04.2006 “Citizens Have the Right to Know” NGO coalition that emerged from the 2003 campaign to adopt the Law on Free Access to Information, sent last Friday an open letter to the Parliamentary Clubs in the Croatian Sabor, demanding from the MPs to renounce the Draft-Law on Confidentiality of Information.

08.04.2006 Last week, the Government of Croatia presented the Draft-Law on Confidentiality of Information, and the Sabor (Croatian Parliament) voted in the National Programme for Prevention of Corruption 2006-2008. The two documents, although on first sight unrelated, present serious contradictions, both between themselves and with other Government’s policies.

07.04.2006 Thanks to the activities of the non-govermental organizations, the Government of Montenegro and the international community, the status of Roma in Montegengro has improved significantly over the past several years, reports the Roma Scholarship Foundation, on the occasion of April 8, International Day of the Roma.

07.04.2006 Led by the idea that information and knowledge should be universally accessible, the Open the Windows citizens’ association offers new and original access to information technology for citizens with special needs.

06.04.2006 The High Working Group charged with the expansion of TEN-T (Transeuropean Transport Network) published a report in Decembre 2005, in which it identified a total of 78 priority transportation projects with a total value of 45 billion EUR. Zelena Akcija Croatian environmental organization representatives were part of the CEE Bankwatch international NGO network delegation that visited Brussels to take part in the consultations on the EU plans for expansion of TEN-T.