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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...

16 January, 2025

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...

26 December, 2024

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...

12 December, 2024

  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...

22 November, 2024

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...

07 November, 2024

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...

07 November, 2024

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...

07 November, 2024

Belgrade, October 24, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia October 11 – October 24, 2024   Institutional pressures on activists and journalists have continued over the past two weeks. The President of the National Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, accused independent media of inciting civil war. Such accusations are...

24 October, 2024

Belgrade, October 10, 2024 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia September 27 – October 10, 2024   The previously observed period was marked by attacks and targeting of journalists. Representatives of the authorities launched a campaign against the journalist Ljiljana Stojanović because of a critical question addressed to the...

10 October, 2024