Civil society

BELGRADE - Serbia's Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic congratulated journalists on May 3, World Press Freedom Day, on Monday, wishing them "the accomplishment of several objectives significant for journalists and media, as well as society as a whole."

Around 100 Balkan human rights campaigners signed a letter supporting French journalist Hartmann, who was arrested at the Hague Tribunal over an unpaid fine for publishing secret court information.

Yuvarla (Round Up) has been named the seventh Changemaker of the 7th season of the Sabanci Foundation Turkey's Changemakers Program. 

Through Yuvarla, a small change when you shop online, which may not mean much to you, is transferred directly to civil society organizations a donation. There are two civil society volunteers behind this system: Emre Danaci and Erdi Yerebasmaz. 

BELGRADE - The officials of 17 civil society organizations presented on Tuesday the results of their engagement in Civil Society for the Future, a project providing assistance to 104 initiatives in 47 local communities across Serbia, worth over USD 900,000.

The National Liberal Party (PNL) resulting from the merger of the extant PNL with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) heralds itself in its political programme draft as a defender of human dignity, liberty and solidarity.

BELGRADE - The role of the civil sector in Serbia must be strengthened in order to increase the transparency of legislative procedures after the forming of the new government, it was stated on Tuesday at the media conference on experiences of the Visegrad Group.

BELGRADE - The civil society in Serbia has to claim the role which societies have in well-developed democracies - the role of government work supervisor and instigator of democratic processes, participants concluded at the Thursday conference on the strategy for sustainable development of the civil sector.