On the occasion of July 11, the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Day, the regional Coalition for RECOM pays tribute to the victims and calls for acceptance of the facts about the genocide determined in court and published in numerous judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as well as in judgements by… »
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London Summit without the Declaration on RECOM
A firm pledge by the Presidents of Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia that the Prime ministers of the aforementioned countries would sign the Declaration on the Establishment of RECOM at the London Summit on 10 July 2018 has not produced the expected results. By 7 July 2018, the Coalition had not received the decisions of… »
Critical Thinking Against Populism in Montenegro
Strengthening civic culture, especially of young people, and their education on dangers and risks of populism, are crucially important to further democratic consolidation in Montenegro, which remains a challenge to all of us, as it was assessed today at the conference Democracy at the Turning Point – Influence of Populism on Youth which was organised… »
Government of Montenegro must protect Montenegrin diplomas
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) has again submitted the Request for URGENT resolving of problem of non-recognition of Montenegrin diplomas in Serbia to the Ministry of Education and Government of Montenegro. Since September 2017, CCE has been pointing out to this problem through communication with the relevant institutions. Unfortunately, it has not been solved but… »
The Government of Montenegro supported RECOM initiative
The Coalition for RECOM welcomes the conclusion of the Government of Montenegro, from today’s 83rd session, which supported the Initiative for founding of RECOM (Regional commission for the establishment of facts about war crimes and other serious violations of human rights committed in the former Yugoslavia from 1 January 1991 until 31 December 2001), as… »
Free textbooks should be provided regardless of the Electoral years
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) has been monitoring for years the manner in which local self-governments allocate free textbooks for elementary school pupils. That practice used to be rather uneven, but in the last two years some progress was noticed. The CCE addressed all local selfgovernments, total of 23 in Montenegro, requesting data if they… »
Initiative for cessation of a proceeding for dismissal of Vanja Calovic-Markovic from the position of member of Council of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC)
PARLIAMENT OF MONTENEGRO ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMITTEE Daliborka Pejovic, President of the Committee Members of the Committee Podgorica 18/6/2018 Subject: Initiative for cessation of a proceeding for dismissal of Vanja Calovic-Markovic from the position of member of Council of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) Dear MPs, On 29/5/2018, Deputy Director of the Agency for Prevention… »
Response to ‘Professional journalism’ and threats of Goran Popovic and Dnevne novine
Today’s front page of ‘Dnevne novine’ and main text on page 2 and 3 represent a peak of shameless campaign which is for months being led against me personally and non-governmental organisation Centre for Civic Education (CCE/CGO) that I represent. I want to highlight to the public: it is untrue that I have any connection… »
Local topics predominant, election list ’For the Good of Citizens of Podgorica – the Winning Coalition – Milo Djukanovic’ the most present in media
Authorities do not give up from taking over public broadcaster
Announced discussion on initiative for dismissal of Director General of RTCG, Andrijana Kadija, re-confirms the intention of DPS to return RTCG under its absolute control, and halt its transformation into public service, despite warnings from European Union. We remind that systemic, continuous and so far unheard-of attacks on RTCG started with unlawful dismissals of two… »