Serbia

04.09.2006 The summer activities of the Serbian Youth Coalition (KMS) resulted in a meeting with Ivana Dulic-Markovic, Vice-President of the Serbian Government, held on August 10, 2006. The meeting discussed the problems of the youth and the need to establish a body that would take responsibility of the state to tend to the needs of the youth population.

21.08.2006 Serbian organization the People’s Parliament became a member, in beginning of August, of the Stop Child Poverty global campaign.

08.08.2006 The organization for respect and care for animals ORCA announced the start of the debate on the Draft-Law on Protection of Wellbeing of Animals and invited the interested members of the general public to contribute to Serbia getting a quality law through their suggestions, proposals and criticism.

03.08.2006 The Roditelj (Parent) Association and MAMA magazine will mark, on Sunday, August 6, the International Breastfeeding Week, with an action in Kalemegdan Park, in the garden of the “Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavilion”.

01.08.2006 The new series of documentary films, titled SOS – Dossier (Violence in the Family), with authentic stories of women from Southern Serbia victims of violence, was produced by the Vranje Human Rights Committee and the department of video production of the Vranje Press Agency (AVP).

28.07.2006 People with impaired vision will be able to use the Belgrade Public Transportation system in the company of their guide dogs, starting July 27, announced Slaven Tica, Director of Belgrade Public Transport Enterprise, in a statement for RTS.

26.07.2006 The survey NGO Sector in Serbia, conducted by Civic Initiatives and Federation of Serbian NGOs (FENS) at the beginning of the year, clearly demonstrates the deteriorating financial situation of non-governmental organizations in Serbia.

21.07.2006 The European Commission published the mandates for negotiations on visa regime alleviation and readmission agreements with Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mandates provide for much simpler and quicker procedure, as well as issuance of multiple entry visas covering longer periods of time for students, researchers, artists and business-people, for travel into the EU.

21.07.2006 The Environmental Protection Bureau, with assistance of the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), prepared the draft-National Environmental Protection Programme, under the auspices of the 2003 Environmental Capacity Building Programme.

18.07.2006 A recent survey conducted by Centre for Development of Inclusive Society and Centre for Study of Alternatives shows that 87 percent of the disabled persons in Serbia are unemployed, while 70 percent live in poverty, due to low income they make. The results also show a greater percentage of women with disabilities, compared to men, live with the status of dependent persons.