Serbia

07.07.2006 Predrag Markovic, Speaker of Serbian Skupstina (the parliament), and Lance Clarke, UNDP Permanent Representative in Serbia, signed a letter of understanding on assistance to five parliamentary committees, for activities dedicated to reduction of poverty.

06.07.2006 Ollie Rehn, EU Commissioner for Expansion will participate in the debate on visa regimes, to be held today (July 6), on the first day of EXIT Festival in Novi Sad.

05.07.2006 Amnesty International called upon Montenegrin President Vujanovic and Prime Minister Djukanovic to make good use of the newly-restored sovereignty of Montenegro to improve the human rights of all its citizens.

03.07.2006 The Network for Affirmation of Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) announced that it will demand from the State Prosecutor to bring up criminal charges against all persons involved in cover-up of information on environmental situation at the Podgorica Aluminium Corporation (Kombinat aluminijuma KAP).

28.06.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre presented its Transitional Justice Report for Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo 1999-2005. In her presentation of the Report, Natasa Kandic, the Centre Director said that Serbia failed to create responsible institutions, which is the main condition for the country “...to face the past and give justice”.

28.06.2006 The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC) will organize Consultation Conference on Education and Small Arms tomorrow, Thursday, June 29, at the Metropol Hotel in Belgrade, from 09:00 – 16:00 hours.

27.06.2006 The participants of the Gender Equality and Role of Women in Transition and Development of Democratic Values Conference presented the institutions, public services, media, the Priboj Municipal Gender Equality Council and NGO with a set of recommendations designed to assist the achievement of true gender equality.

22.06.2006 Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre from Belgrade, was invited to address the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), to be held today in Geneva, Switzerland.

21.06.2006 The status of refugees in former Yugoslavia and the Kosovo IDPs in Serbia and Montenegro has turned for the worse by the breakdown of the union of states and the uncertain status of Kosovo, say the representatives of the Group 484 at the presentation of their 2005 Report on Status of Human Rights of Forced Migrants.

20.06.2006 Activists of the “SOS Telefon Niksic” non-governmental organizations gave a performance on Friday, June 16, in front of the Municipal Building in Niksic, under the motto Did she stumble down the stairs? The performance was organized under the Programme for Improved Rights of Women in the Villages in Niksic Area, with financial support from the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund and the Dutch Central and Eastern Europe Foundation.