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...
Civic Initiatives strongly condemn the repressive measures implemented by the state in Užice and demand the immediate release of seven citizens, including a student, a professor, a councilor, and a lawyer, as well as other participants in the protest. We call on the relevant institutions...
Belgrade, 2 July 2025 The Secretary General of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS), Tamara Filipović Stevanović, and Uroš Jovanović from Civic Initiatives, today left “awards” at the entrance of the Belgrade City Assembly for Mayor Aleksandar Šapić, recognising him as the most prominent initiator...
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...
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...
Belgrade, July 12, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia July 12 – August 1, 2024 From July 12 to August 1, 2024, several serious human rights violations were recorded in Serbia concerning freedom of expression, assembly, and association. Activist Zlatko Kokanović was detained due to comments made...
Belgrade, September 21, 2023 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia August 25 – September 7, 2023 The previous period was marked by several cases of attacks on activists. It is particularly worrying that in three cases, activists were physically attacked. "Local front" activist Predrag Voštinić was attacked in Kraljevo...
