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Serbia in the smoke of the landfill: Poisons in the air, silence in the institutions
The story of unsanitary landfills is again in the center of attention. Since the beginning of this year, the landfill in Valjevo has burned several times, and the citizens have started blocking its access and preventing garbage disposal, in order to point out again that this unsanitary landfill has been endangering their health for decades. […]
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HOW CITIZENS’ MONEY IS SPENT: A Manual for Identifying GONGOs and Phantom Organizations
Do you know how your money is spent? Every year, millions of dinars from the public budget end up in the hands of dubious organizations. Although public competitions should support the work of organizations that truly serve the public interest, the reality is different: funds often go to so-called GONGO organizations (government organized non-governmental organizations), […]
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Jovanović: Violence against civil society institutionalized in Republika Srpska
February 28, 2025. Written by: Uroš Jovanović, manager of the Program for Public Policy in Civic Initiatives Associations and foundations in the Republika Srpska entity will bear the label of agents of foreign influence if they provide funds for their work from abroad and if they advocate for better laws towards the institutions of this […]
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Anti-corruption protests in Serbia: An overview of the events and the institutions’ treatment of the protesters
Belgrade, February 28, 2025 REPORT: Anti-corruption protests in Serbia: Overview of events and the actions of institutions towards protesters In Novi Sad, the second largest city in Serbia, on November 1, 2024, the canopy of the recently reconstructed Railway Station fell. 15 people died. All over Serbia, citizen protests against corruption followed, demanding that the […]
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Analysis of public funding for gender equality: non-transparent funding and institutional apathy
The analysis of public funds for gender equality was carried out in the period from August 2024 to January 2025 as part of the project “Strengthening the transparency of funding from public sources through the analysis of phantom and GONGO associations”, which is jointly implemented by Civic Initiatives, the Balkan Research Network of Serbia (BIRN) […]
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