News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target group: CSOs Countries: International Short Description: The tool assists CSOs and movements in their journey to become more inclusive, diverse and sensitive to the needs, identities and backgrounds of their people. Link to the original call (Global Standard)
Read more →Target group: Young activists and CSO leaders, ages 21-28 Countries: International Short Description: The Community Engagement Exchange Program is a year-long program designed to enable civil society leaders, ages 21-28, to harness the power of networks, relationships, and information for the public good, specifically on issues related to civic dialogue and peacebuilding, open and participatory
Read more →A worrying trend of endangering the right to assembly and excessive use of force by the coercive apparatus has been observed in the past few weeks in Serbia. In mid-November, civil society concerns focused on the ban on rallies in protest of the arrest of civil activists who expressed their revolt against Ratko Mladic’s mural
Read more →In a letter signed by 53 CSOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, civil society has raised concerns about the difficult political situation the country has been faced with in recent months, the rising tensions, and even threats to the peace in the country. Noting that many uncertainties mar the negotiations on the future of BiH, the
Read more →The annual EU-Western Balkans Summit organized by Friends for Europe will take place virtually on Dec 7th. This year’s summit is moving from a problem-solving dynamic to asset-based approach focused on fresh policy perspective on how to strengthen and develop the Balkan region and close the gap to the EU. Titled “Shifting the narrative –
Read more →The world is becoming more authoritarian as non-democratic regimes become even more brazen in their repression and many democratic governments suffer from backsliding by adopting their tactics of restricting free speech and weakening the rule of law, exacerbated by what threatens to become a “new normal” of Covid-19 restrictions. For the fifth consecutive year, the
Read more →The GLOBSEC Vulnerability Index, measures vulnerability towards foreign influence in eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans region: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. The Vulnerability Index explores and displays the external authoritarian influence in countries, ranking it according to its own methodology. The Index assesses
Read more →The Gap Analysis of Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Western Balkans and Moldova, recently published by the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI), shows that overall, two whistleblower protection laws reflected substantial compliance with consensus standards – the laws of Kosovo and Serbia, and three had inadequate compliance – the state law of BiH, the law of
Read more →A group of CSOs from Serbia submitted a list of requests to the competent authorities demanding detailed investigation of the events of November 27th, and…
Read more →Within the marking of the 16 days of activism against violence, CIVICUS World Alliance has created a list of 16 people-powered movements and campaigns to add your voice to this 16 Days of Activism. The list contains short but comprehensive descriptions of 16 women-led campaigns covering issues everything from advocating for equality, access, and justice,
Read more →A report prepared by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center examines what experts and interested public think about the future of digital spaces their impact on democracy that recently has been raising societal concerns. Most of the experts agree that digital spaces are evolving in ways that are both positive
Read more →The 2021 edition of the Global Accountability Week took place from the 22-24 November, utilizing the voices of many social actors in their goal to inspire accountability in others and to share learned lessons and previous experiences in the area. Within the #GAW2021, BCSDN conducted a workshop exploring the dynamic accountability and familiarized the Regional
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