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Recognition: IA offically certified as a reserch centre!
30. 10. 2013.
Ministry of Science has issued a formal decision, granting Institute Alternative the official certificate to conduct research activities in the filed of social sciences, on 17 October 2013, based on the Law on Conducting Scientific and Research Activities (“Official Gazette of Montenegro, no. 80/10, Article 31). Certificate was issued after IA filed a request to…
Meeting with the representative of State Department
30. 10. 2013.
Institute Alternative’s President of the Managing Board, Stevo Muk, met with the newly appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee. Mr. Yee is paying an official visit to Montenegro October 27-29. During the visit, he met with the high-level Montenegrin government officials, representatives of political parties, diplomatic corps representatives and…
Positive audit report on IA’s project
14. 09. 2013.
At its last session, the Government has verified the Report of the Commission for allocation of revenue from gambling on expenditure of funds awarded by the Decision on allocation of revenue from gambling for 2011 to the organizations whose projects were under audit. Selected audit company conducted financial monitoring of all plans and programs of…
Press release: Condemnation of the assault on the journalist of Vijesti and Monitor
12. 08. 2013.
Institute Alternative strongly condemns attack on Tufik Softic, journalist of daily Vijesti and weekly Monitor. This case, as well as number of the so far unresolved assaults on journalists, proves that Montenegro is still not an environment in which the opinions can be publicly and openly stated and the issues relevant for the social reforms…
Our protest regarding hate speech and threats to LGBT persons
23. 07. 2013.
IA strongly condemns the actions of individuals and groups that use hate speech, threatening and call for lynching the organizers of the forthcoming LGBT gathering in Budva. IA calls upon the police and authorities to immediately deal with the perpetrators and prosecute the offense of stirring up hatred and intolerance toward LGBT people. Publishing of…
IA at DGAP’s Train Alumni Conference
01. 07. 2013.
Jovana Marović, IA’s research coordinator and our policy analyst Marko Sošić, participated in the TRAIN programme (Think Tanks Providing Research and Advice through Interaction and Networking) Alumni Conference, organized by the German Council for Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin from 27 to 30 June. The purpose of the conference was a gathering of TRAIN alumni…