Serbia

07.03.2006 Ten municipalities in Serbia signed the agreement for participation in the implementation of the first phase of the MEGA programme for Stimulation of Economic Development of Municipalities.

06.03.2006 The Open Society Fund in Serbia started the Future of Information in Minority Languages in Serbia – Towards Optimal and Sustainable Model initiative, under which it implements a survey on status and situation of media in Serbia that broadcast programmes in minority languages.

03.03.2006 Mercy Corps started the programme for reduction of unemployment, intended for companies and firms from ten municipalities in Southern and Western Serbia that wish to create new jobs. The programme aims to create new jobs through support for firms with good prospects, and through overall support to local economy development.

02.03.2006 Snezana Lakicevic Stojacic, Provincial Secretary of Labour, Employment and Gender Equality and Sandra Ljubinkovic, Executive Director of the Anti Trafficking Centre from Belgrade, signed an agreement of cooperation on the “Until Violence Ends” Project.

28.02.2006 In 2005, the Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with Save the Children UK program in Montenegro and Professor Radoje Korac, PhD, Law Faculty, department for family law, formed a working group to develop a draft Law on the protection from violence in the family.

27.02.2006 The first SOS Phone-Line for Roma Women Victims of Violence in Serbia was opened in Nis. The SOS Phone is open to women and children from other ethnic communities, while the volunteers can communicate in Romani and Serbian languages.

23.02.2006 The Mileva Maric-Einstein Women’s Studies and Research Center started a survey on gender equality principle in the mother tongue textbooks for elementary schools in Serbia.

22.02.2006 In spite of the fact that Serbia has a very strict and rigorous legislation against family violence for over a year now, the perpetrators are still punished with fines and conditional sentences, shows the survey conducted by the Women Research Centre from Nis and the Autonomous Women Centre from Belgrade.

20.02.2006 The Centre for Independent Living of Disabled Persons in Serbia announced a regional conference on access of physical environment and freedom of movement of disabled persons, to take place in Belgrade, 22-23 February.

16.02.2006 The Vojvodina Youth Action Plan which offers programmes and policies for solution of problems of education, employment, health, culture and free time was presented in Zrenjanin.