Opinion and Analyses

07.05.2008 Representation of LGBT Population on the websites of the Extreme Right in Serbia is the graduate thesis of Marija Radoman, student at the Sociology Department of the School of Philosophy in Belgrade.

06.04.2008 An activist of Citizens of Sarajevo, an informal group that has organized, for the past two months, protests in Sarajevo, that uses the 45 Cents pseudonym, draws a line of recapitulation before the big protests scheduled to take place later today, April 6. (Note: the opinion was written on April 5, 2008)

28.02.2008 OWPSEE`s Denis Kajic has some important questions to ask after the recent violent protests in Sarajevo, provoked by the murder of high school student Denis Mrnjavac and the seriously deteriorating securiti situation in the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

27.02.2008 Creation of political independence starts with the declaration. Ideally, if all relations and interests in a given geographic area are harmonised, or solved, the start of independence gets its logical continuation in the UN, where that status of independent state is made formal. Obviously, Kosovo not exactly in that ideal position and it needs much more than just political independence.

25.02.2008 Andrej Nosov and Dragan Popović from the Youth Initaitive for Human Rights write about the new relations between Serbia and Kosovo after the latter declared independence.

16.02.2008 On this day, Saturday, February 16, Sarajevo is going to protest and demonstrate for its right to be a city of citizens and not of privileged politicians. (Forumaši: Pokažimo sutra da nismo rulja, and Forum: SUBOTA, 16.02.2008., 13.00h).

14.01.2008 A week from this year\'s World Social Forum, Vita Europe launches a debate on today\'s organised social movements. Whether you will be at the WSF or not, send us your side of the story! More than 850 organisations from 64 countries have already registered to the WSF 2008 website!

06.12.2007 Greek philosopher Heraclitus claimed that change is the only constant, and I am inclined to agree, having in mind the latest developments on B&H political scene, if only I weren’t bothered by the question of validity and purpose of changes that result in a situation in which everything remains the same, writes Denis Kajic, editor of Viaggiare i Balcani portal and member of OWPSEE Team, in his commentary originally published on Dosta! portal.

13.11.2007 Kosovo is on the brink of a new era. Kosovo’s upcoming elections on November 17th give us a chance to prove to ourselves, to women and men from our international coalitions for peace and justice and to the entire international community, our readiness to build a just and sustainable peace and inclusive democracy, says the Regional Women\\\'s Lobby for Peace, Security and Justice in SEE.

22.10.2007 The start of transition in the Balkans saw the exponential rise of NGOs. The public space got filled with a myriad of groups pursuing a great diversity of causes ranging from relief, economic development, to democracy, human rights, anti-corruption, and a lot more. Is this enough to replace a stable and functional public administration, asks Risto Karajkov, post-graduate student in International Development at the University of Bologna, Italy.

02.10.2007 The ecology in Montenegro is in the worst possible situation in the past 16 years, i.e. since Montenegro was declared ecological state. To put it simply, ecology is walked over by all those who object to that path of development, writes Sinisa Stevovic from MOST.

06.08.2007 Alen Jusufovic’s story, by his own account, starts in 2005, when a girl from Poland told him about RIVER SEE EVS programme. The rest, as the old saying goes, is history. A very personal and, yet, very enlightening and universal story.

26.07.2007 Does the practice to end all meetings, workshops and conferences threaten to become a self contained mannerism? Should we insist on recommendation only because they present a certain tangible outcome suitable for filling in reports? Our on-and-off contributor, Risto Karajkov, post-graduate student just short of his Ph.D. in the field of social development, asks these and similar questions and provides some answers.

03.05.2007 The Narodna Skupstina (People’s Parliament) of the Republic of Srpska adopted, on October 24, 2000, the Law on Labour (Official Journal of RS, No. 38, November 8, 2000). What attracted attention were the provisions on workers’ council in Articles 109-111. The Law provides that all employees with more than 15 full-time employees, the workers can establish their own council to represent themselves and protect their rights.

08.03.2007 The sigh after the announcement of the ruling by the International Court of Justice in the Hague, by Valentina Pellizzer, Executive Manageress of OWPSEE.

28.02.2007 “Novi list” daily reports that the Croatian Health Insurance Bureau decided to allocate about 13 percent higher support for annual needs for medicines to boys up to seven years of age than to girls of the same age group. According to the Bureau, the decision was based on actual data on use of medicines for 2006, which shows that boys simply use more medicines than girls.

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

23.01.2007 In this article, Lamija Kosovic examines the current ICTs situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying particular attention to the development of a National ICT Policy Strategy, and the responses towards the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women's national machinery and civil society organisations.

09.12.2006 How many of you have heard of the Law on Gender Equality? Do you know what does it mean for men and women to have equal rights in B&H society? It is hard to imagine any serious work on gender equality done without support in a state's legislation, and B&H has just such a Law for three years now.

10.10.2006 Zelena Istra (Green Istria) representative recently took part in a public debate discussing public views on announced big infrastructural projects (October 5, Zagreb) organized by the Scientific Energy Council of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.