News and updates from BCSDN and the region
At the occasion of the visit of the current UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai at the European Parliament for a round table discussion with MEPs, EEAS and DEVCO representatives and civil society actors, ACT Alliance and CIDSE published a briefing paper based on their
Read more →For his next report to the Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai will explore the subject of fundamentalism and the intolerance that it can spur, leading to violations of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. The report will explore many variations of fundamentalism – market, nationalist, political and cultural fundamentalism
Read more →After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many countries saw the importance of defending civil society. Today, however, many countries are defunding civil society. Using all sorts of pretexts, governments that feel threatened by such organizations impose restrictions on them, writes Douglas Rutzen, CEO of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). These governments are
Read more →On 1st December and as a response to the Syrian crisis, the EU Regional Trust Fund adopted a package of 4 programmes totaling EUR 350 million the single biggest EU measure in response to the Syrian refugee crisis to date. The aim of the programmes is to help up to 1.5 million Syrian refugees and
Read more →On 3rd-4th December 2015, the 17th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights organized by the European External Action Service (EEAS), European Commission and Human Rights and…
Read more →The Civil Rights Programe Kosovo (CRPK), supported by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF), published a research paper that intends to assess and shed light on the opportunities for Civil Society Organizations to obtain state contracts in the Republic of Kosovo. The research was inspired by the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development
Read more →This recent article by Adam Fagan contributes to a growing literature focusing on the substance of donor-driven democracy promotion in Kosovo and presents a picture of donor behavior in flux. Drawing on extensive empirical research between 2010 and 2012, the research provides greater insights into which donors are providing what sort of assistance; how the
Read more →From 27th -29th November BCSDN was guest on the Regional Academy for Democracy’s fourth seminar and closing conference in Belgrade, devoted to the topic of…
Read more →In response to the current situation taking place along the borders and train stations of the refugee route in Southeast Europe, the German Foundation Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL) announces a call for small and non-bureaucratic financial emergency relief fund. It is targeted to local NGOs and initiatives with the aim to support refigures in the
Read more →The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) published a new policy brief on the Western Balkans and the EU, titled “Beyond the Autopilot Mode”. This policy brief addresses the EU’s drained transformative leverage towards Western Balkan accession countries, on-going political tensions in Montenegro, the agonizing economic situation in the region, the main outputs of
Read more →CAS SEE is announcing a new annual call for Fellowships for the spring 2016, organized along the following themes: 1) Refugees, Migration and Democracy: Faces of the Protracted Relationship, and 2) (Re)thinking (about) the Crisis: Exploring the Danger and the Opportunities of Current Crisis-Hysteria; but also offer the possibility of open applications. The Fellowship Programme
Read more →TACSO Office for Montenegro, the Government Office for Cooperation with Non-governmental Organizations and the Center for Development of Non-Governmental Organizations (CRNVO) are organizing a conference „Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Montenegro“ aiming to improve knowledge of civil and public sector regarding social entrepreneurship as a mechanism for development of society and sustainability of NGOs and
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