News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The World Forum for Democracy is a unique platform for decision-makers and activists to debate solutions to key challenges for democracies worldwide. The 2016 World Forum for Democracy will focus on the relationship between education and democracy. It will examine whether they can reinforce each other and together address the risks of new social divides.
Read more →The Roma Initiatives Office (RIO) invites Roma-led national coalitions and networks (formal or non-formal) among Roma and pro-Roma organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey to apply for support for national-level monitoring and advocacy aimed at ensuring that Roma-specific targets are included in major policy reforms and national budgets. Roma
Read more →The specific objective of this CfP is strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations for more effective action in the promotion of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights in Serbia. The overall indicative amount made available under this call is EUR 1.750.000 while any grant requested must fall between EUR 50.000 and EUR 300.000,
Read more →The Monitoring Matrix 2015 Reports on Enabling Environment (EE) for Civil Society Development (CSDev) for all seven countries are now available. The reports present the developments in EE in 2015, outlining the key conclusions and recommendations for improvement. After publishing the baseline reports in 2013 and 2014, the 2015 reports are focused on presenting situation
Read more →The Global NPO Coalition on FATF, representing a wide coalition of non-profit organisations (NPOs), applauds the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) recent update to its counter-terrorism recommendation on NPOs. NPOs hail the removal of the long-standing characterization of non-profits as “particularly vulnerable” to terrorist abuse from Recommendation 8 (R8). The previous language led to overregulation
Read more →On 21-22 June in Skopje, BCSDN organized a regional capacity-building event within the scope of the project Western Balkan CSOs in Global Development. In the context of the future enlargement of the EU in Western Balkan countries, the project will raise capacities of CSOs to engage in political dialogue, advocacy and awareness rising of global
Read more →Being cognizant of the fact that is it crucial time for protecting fundamental rights, such as freedom of assembly, on 21st of June, 2016, the European Center for Non-for-Profit Law hosted an expert conference on freedom of peaceful assembly in the Western Balkans “Right to Free Assembly: Making Democracy Work” in Skopje, Macedonia. The event
Read more →The latest CIVICUS Watch Report shows that in 2015 one or more of the core civil society freedoms – freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, were seriously violated in at least 109 countries. Of the three core civil society freedoms, the freedom of association was most frequently violated. In the Western Balkans region, the
Read more →The 2016 State of Civil Society Report summarizes the key events, issues and trends affecting civil society around the world. The 5th annual report draws on contributions from more than 30 of the world’s leading experts on civil society as well as investigative work from the CIVICUS staff, which was conducted in close partnership with
Read more →More than 244 CSOs from all around the world sent a joint open letter to call delegations worldwide, in order to stand in solidarity with civil society by supporting the draft resolution on the protection of civil society space, to be considered for adoption on the 32nd session of the Human Right Council (on 30
Read more →On the 27th of June, Civic Initiatives, Serbia, invited CSOs on a meeting that will take place on the 29th of June in Novi Sad (Serbia), regarding the amendments on the Law on Associations and the Law on Foundations contained in the Civil Code. Namely, the working group established by the Government of the Republic of
Read more →On 29 June, our member organization, CSPC held a presentation on the 2015 report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Bosnia and…
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