Serbia

11.12.2005 Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, said that the arrest of Croatian general Ante Gotovina makes “Serbia alone in the region” and that the position of the Government regarding the cooperation with the ICTY has “changed significantly”.

08.12.2005 Carla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY), said today in Belgrade that her report to the UN Security Council on the cooperation of Serbia and Montenegro with the ICTY will be negative.

06.12.2005 The Exit Festival launched the “Study Better” campaign which will offer the students in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad and Subotica a variety of cultural and educational programmes over the period of the next five months.

05.12.2005 The Ray of Hope association of parents of children with impaired developement from Pljevlje, started the implementation of the “Live with us, not beside us” project, on the occasion of December 3, the International Day of Disabled Persons. The project is supported by Share SEE.

02.12.2005 December 1, the World AIDS Day, was marked in Serbia with the opening of the National Office for HIV/AIDS in Belgrade, and numerous other events and manifestations in Serbia and Montenegro.

01.12.2005 On the occasion of December 1, World AIDS Day, the CAZAS started a campaign on November 17, under the motto “STOP AIDS – Keep the Promise”. The campaign will end on December 15.

30.11.2005 Starting with next school year, the pupils in Montenegro elementary schools will be introduced to a new subject in the Curriculum, called “Healthy lifestyles”. This initiative was launched by Montenegrin organisation for combating HIV/AIDS – CAZAS. Yesterday, CAZAS representatives announced the completion of the first phase of the project “Healthy lifestyles against drug abuse”.

30.11.2005 The UN Human Rights Committee ordered Serbia and Montenegro to annul the sentence and compensate Zeljko Bodrozic, a journalist sentenced on charges of defamation filed by former official of the Socialist Party, Dmitar Segrt.

29.11.2005 The “Life is What You Make Of It” campaign was designed by the HIV Prevention Network to mark December 1, the International AIDS Day, in several cities and municipalities in Serbia.

29.11.2005 The Kotor-based NGO for promotion of peace and non-violence ANIMA, together with the students of the Kotor Women Studies course, presented the “Audio and Visual Fascism” Performance, on November 26.