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Public Call for the Abolition or Reduction of the Measure which Bans Public Assemblies
Human Rights Action (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) call on the National Coordination Body (NKT) and the respected minister of health to abolish the ban on public assemblies in Montenegro. We think that amid abolishing many measures for suppression and prevention of spread of the new coronavirus, the need for banning public assemblies has ceased…
Who paid EUR12,935 to Zoran Jelić?
Below you can take a look at the infographic on the mysterious income of one of the members of the Senate of the State Audit Institution:
Joint Forces for Public Assemblies
Within the project ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” Institute Alternative (IA) supported four civil society organisations. Together with IA and Human Rights Action (HRA) they will monitor public assemblies in the next six months and work on expanding the space for activism. “At the time when we applied for the project,…
Four Mini Grants within the ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” project
International Women’s Day March, International Workers’ Day March, Pride Parade, environmental protests, political demonstrations, religious protests– are examples of public assemblies where citizens want to express their beliefs and demands to public authorities. Four more organisations have joined our efforts to improve freedom of public assembly in the upcoming period, with the support of the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Governments in the WB still do not provide adequate information on their achievements
First results from PAR Monitor 2019/2020 In the policy development area, PAR Monitor 2019/2020 starts by focusing on the information available to citizens on governmental performance. Evidence shows that citizens of the Western Balkan countries, with the exception of BiH and to a lesser extent North Macedonia, do not have access to basic information about…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Proactive informing from public authorities is still at a low level in the Western Balkans
First results from PAR Monitor 2019/2020 Worrying trends in the limited proactive information made available to citizens of the Western Balkans by their governments, indicated in the baseline PAR Monitor 2017/2018, have shown little change. Although some online information is easily accessible in most of the countries included, limited open data practices and transparency in…