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...
Open Call for Grant Applications: Encouraging Participation and Representation of Albanian Youth Civil Initiatives are announcing a call for project proposals aimed at encouraging the participation and representation of Albanian youth in Preševo and Bujanovac. By empowering local organizations to leverage their community connections and understanding of...
Belgrade, March 16, 2023 The "Three Freedoms" Platform considers the targeting and intimidation campaigns, which call for the lynching of political opponents, civil society and members of the academic community, through posters and graffiti in Serbian cities and televisions with a license for national coverage, to...
Belgrade, December 21, 2022 The constant cycle of escalation and de-escalation in relations between Kosovo and Serbia represents a failure of political imagination. The energy taken up in contending with the latest crisis distracts from the mountain of pressing issues which directly impact the day to day...
Belgrade, September 30, 2022. Civil society organizations gathered around the "Three Freedoms" Platform demand an immediate reaction by the institutions to allegations of violence by the police against environmental activists protesting against the mining of Starica Mountain in Majdanpek, including beatings, forcing confessions and preventing contact...
22 September 2022 Authorities attempt to ban Belgrade’s first staging of EuroPride rally Protests on environmental issues have faced restrictions Environmental defenders face judicial harassment through SLAPPs Serbia has been added to a watchlist of countries that have seen a rapid decline in civic freedoms, with...
Belgrade, July 28, 2020 Civic Initiatives and the Balkan Civil Society Development Network are pleased to present the new edition of the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development, covering developments in Serbia in 2021. This report is part of a series of country reports...
Civic Initiatives and the National Resource Centre for Civil Society have the pleasure to invite You to the Regional Forum “Human rights and access to information”. The Regional Forum will be held on 14 July 2022, online. The Forum aims to present an overview and importance...
Memorialization means remembering someone, honoring and respecting them and their life. It can take different forms, but all of them have the following in common: remembrance and respect. In order to push back against the harmful narrative created around memorialization in the society, Civic Initiatives are...
