News and updates from BCSDN and the region
BCSDN presents its recent publication: “Joint Action for Promoting Civic Space and a more Resilient Civil Society”. The document offers a wealth of information and resources about the current civil society trends and responses to support the work of anyone who cares about civic space and shares the same values and motivation for advancing it.
Read more →On 16th November 2022, BCSDN presented the key findings of the Civil Society Organizations Sustainability Index (CSOSI) 2021 Report for North Macedonia. The report, based on discussions with a panel of country experts is included in the 2021 CSOSI for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia that will be published by USAID and FHI 360
Read more →BCSDN participated in the 15th edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum held on 21 – 22 November 2022 in a Hybrid format, organized by the Romanian NGDO Platform – FOND. The event aimed to highlight the role and involvement of civil society in crisis management response and humanitarian assistance in the context of the
Read more →BCSDN held the launching event of the research papers prepared within the scope of the CSO – Private Sector engagement research, supported by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE). During the event, the research partners, Albanian Center for Economic Research, European Policy Institute – Skopje (North Macedonia), and Trag Foundation (Serbia), presented their research
Read more →At the plenary session on 23 November, the European Parliament adopted the resolution on the new EU enlargement strategy, proposed by MP Tonino Picula from the Group of Socialists and Democrats. The resolution recognized the importance of enlargement policy in light of current geopolitical circumstances caused by the Russian aggression on Ukraine, as well as the diminishing
Read more →For a long time, BiH has been silent on the issues of children born of war and their mothers, survivors of wartime rape. Rape victims and their children typically cope alone, without additional support, with the devastating consequences of wartime rape, including psychological, physical, economic, and social problems. After years of neglect, the Brčko District
Read more →Amnesty International stated that the decision by Turkey’s highest appeals court to overturn baseless convictions of Amnesty Turkey’s Honorary Chair and three other human rights defenders is a huge relief, yet also highlights once more the politically motivated nature of the prosecutions. The ruling by the Court of Cassation on the convictions of Taner Kılıç,
Read more →Governments worldwide have been adopting surveillance measures for decades. But with the development of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), they can deploy surveillance at unprecedented scale and speed and gain easy access to new sources of information, such as vast amounts of data collected by online platforms and services. The increased ability of authorities
Read more →CONCORD, together with its civil society partners worldwide, has produced several concrete inputs on civil society participation in EU international partnerships and external action decision-making wrapped in the publication titled “7 Practices for Civil Society Participation in EU Decision-Making”, aiming to encourage not only a shift to action towards meaningful, inclusive and safe civil society
Read more →The European Youth Forum and the European Trade Union Confederation, as well as activists and EU lawmakers, gathered in front of the European Parliament in Brussels on 10 November, International Interns Day, to demand more rights for trainees. The goal of the event was to highlight the value of young people’s work and to ask
Read more →The sixth edition of the Women’s Rights in Western Balkans Report (2022) serves as a benchmark for the six Western Balkan accession countries regarding women’s rights and influence for comparisons over time. The four areas included in this benchmark are women in politics, gender-based violence (GBV), security of women human rights defenders (WHRDs), and women
Read more →After the official Call for joining the Regional Accountability of Practice (RACoP), on 30th November, BCSDN held a launching event for all CSOs practitioners who expressed willingness to join the regional community. This initiative comes after a long process of assessing the state of civil society in the region and the ongoing adverse trends, furthering
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