Widespread civil disobedience met with brutality and detentions State providing support and legal protection to violent goons Alarming uptick in surveillance and intimidation of activists Johannesburg, 30 July 2025 – The CIVICUS Monitor has once again placed Serbia on its Watchlist of countries experiencing a...
SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA – July 17, 2025 – The Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN) released its eleventh annual Monitoring Matrix Report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development, providing a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of the state of civic freedoms across the Western Balkans...
July 22, 2025 Civic Initiatives warns the public about the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Textbooks, which will cement political control over education in Serbia, and calls on the Government of Serbia to withdraw the proposal from parliamentary procedure. By introducing “textbooks of national...
Civic Initiatives and the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation today addressed the Committee on Culture and Information of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, demanding that the process of determining the final list of candidates and nominators for members of the REM Council be halted...
Civic Initiatives has submitted a report to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia detailing serious legal and procedural irregularities in the previous process of selecting members of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM). The analysis is based on the...
Civic Initiatives, Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), FemPlatz, the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and the A11 Initiative are collecting testimonies of citizens who were present during the incident at protest on March 15th in Belgrade, where...
February 28 2025 by Uroš Jovanović, Public Policy Program Manager at Civic Initiatives Associations and foundations in the entity of Republika Srpska will bear the label of foreign agents if they secure funding for their work from abroad and if they advocate for better laws before the...
January 16, 2025 Civic Initiatives have published a comprehensive report on the ongoing process for selecting members of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM), highlighting serious procedural irregularities, political pressures, and discrepancies in the qualifications of candidates and their proposers. The report, based...
Miljenko Dereta Space, Dobračina 55, Belgrade, Serbia 28 November 2024 9.30 – 10.00 Welcome coffee and registration of participants 10:00 – 10:05 Opening Remarks Uroš Jovanović – Public Policy Program Manager at Civic Initiatives H.E. Martijn Elgersma – Dutch Ambassador in Belgrade 10:05 – 10:15 Launch of the SLAPP...
A large number of unfounded arrests and detentions of citizens in recent weeks has been accompanied by a propaganda offensive against alleged foreign mercenaries who, in the interests of hostile countries, are said to be undermining the state order. The goal of such manipulations, propagated...
