Belgrade, February 28, 2025 REPORT: Protests Against Corruption in Serbia: A Review of Events and Institutional Response On November 1, 2024, a canopy at the recently reconstructed Railway Station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 16 people. Protests erupted across Serbia...
Belgrade, February 14, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia January 31 – February 13, 2025 Despite the authorities' persistent attempts to portray the students' demands as fulfilled, the facts show otherwise. One of the students' demands is to punish those who attack participants in protests and blockades....
Belgrade, January 30, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia January 17 – January 30, 2025 Two more female students were seriously injured in the previous period. This indicates a worrying trend of increasing extreme violence to which women engaged in activism are exposed. A student was hit...
Belgrade, January 17, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia December 27 – January 16, 2025 Yesterday we witnessed the attempted murder of a student who participated in the protest. The disturbing moment of the young woman being hit by a car should not be seen in an...
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...
Belgrade, December 26, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia December 13 – December 26, 2024 Another challenging year is passing and towards its end the situation in society is still tense. Blockades and repression towards high school students, students, and citizens continue. Thugs hit the crowd with...
Belgrade, December 12, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia November 22 – December 12, 2024 The international alliance of non-governmental organizations, CIVICUS, has published its annual report on the state of basic freedoms worldwide. The report states that the right to protest is under threat around the...
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, November 22, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia November 8 – November 21, 2024 It took twenty days for the institutions to arrest the suspects responsible for the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad when 15 people died. During that time, 9 people were detained...
Belgrade, November 7, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia October 25 – November 7, 2024 After 14 people tragically lost their lives in Novi Sad, it seems minor to talk about the violation of other freedoms, when the right to life itself became threatened. Citizens demand responsibility and...
