Belgrade, March 20, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia March 7 – March 20, 2025 On March 15, one of the largest gatherings in the past few decades in Serbia was held in Belgrade. Due to the importance of this event and the large number of events...
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...
Belgrade, March 6, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia February 14 – March 6, 2025 The deep political crisis that Serbia is also reflected in numerous violations of basic freedoms recorded in the observed period. In Belgrade, on February 25, members of the Criminal Police Directorate, on the...
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...
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...
