Bosnia and Herzegovina

21.04.2008 The Citizens of Sarajevo informal group started a public campaign designed to inform the citizens about the detected violations of ethical and legal norms and manipulations related to spending of public funds and the City Budget.

18.04.2008 The Government of the Republic of Srpska adopted yesterday the Draft-Law on Volunteering. Over the coming months, it is expected to organize a series of public debates on the Draft and all interested citizens and organizations are invited to take part in the process.

10.04.2008 Over 3,000 students visited the fourth AIESEC Career Days fair, held in Sarajevo over the past two days, in which 24 companies working in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented their operations.

03.04.2008 After the informal group Građani/ke Sarajeva (Citizens of Sarajevo), the organizer of the protests against cantonal and city authorities over the deteriorated security situation in Sarajevo, reacted to the ban of the protests announced for April 6, announced by the Cantonal Ministry of Interior, a number of NGOs and civic associations joined in with their own condemnations of the ban.

02.04.2008 The Ministry of Interior (MUP KS) of the Canton of Sarajevo banned the protests of the informal group of citizens announced for April 6, in front of the National Theatre in Sarajevo, parallel with the celebration of the Day of the City in Sarajevo, which takes place at the Theatre, with expected presence of high national and international officials and guests.

24.03.2008 The `Youth and Media` Conference (Tuzla, March 29-30, 2008) for improvement of status of youth in BiH through development of volunteering in local radio stations is connected to the strategic goals of youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina and relies on main directions for development of youth policies in the countries of the EU.

21.03.2008 The BH novinari (BH Journalists) association and the Media Help Line strongly protest the threats that Rajko Bulajic, Director of `Romanija` Forestry Company from Sokolac issued against Darko Momic, reporter of `Press RS` Daily.

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.

19.03.2008 ACIPS (Alumni Association of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies) has worked for years to find solution to problems of higher education that result in inability for those who earned university degrees abroad to get their diplomas recognized in B&H and continue their education in the country.

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.