Books delivered within the action “Donate a book to the women section of the Institute for execution of criminal sanctions (IECS)”

Representatives of the Human Rights Action (HRA), the Centre for Civic Education (CCE), the Centre for Anti-discrimination EQUISTA, the Women’s Safe House (WSH), the Centre for Women’s Rights and the NGO 4 Life delivered today over 600 titles to the IECS within the action “Donate a book to the women section of the Institute for… »

Torture in Montenegro is still not being processed in accordance with the international standards and obligations

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) reminds that today, all over the world, the International Day for Support of Victims of Torture is being commemorated. This day was established under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment or Treatment adopted by the United Nations and signed by the country of Montenegro. On… »

Members of the Council for protection from discrimination temporarily frozen their membership

Yesterday, members of the Council for Protection against Discrimination from the non-governmental organizations Milan Šaranović, Biljana Alković, Daliborka Uljarević and Zdravko Cimbaljević froze their membership in that institution until the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, arranges a meeting with representatives of persons with disabilities organizations, who have been requesting the same for some time… »

Letter to His Excellency Secretary General of the United Nations

United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon Your Excellency, We are writing to you regarding recent developments that have significantly contributed to the erosion of the credibility of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The latest in a series of such developments was a letter by Frederik Harhoff, a Danish judge serving at… »

Amendments to the Law on prohibition of discrimination are step forward

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) finds that the amendments to the Anti-Discrimination Law, after three years of the implementation of this Law, come at the right time and with so solid text represent an attempt to substantially comply with the recommendations of the European Commission. Namely, by the proposed amendments the most important institute of… »

Injustice for victims

Centre for Civic Education (CCE) believes that today’s decision of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the first instance verdict acquitting the accused of the deportation of Bosnian-Herzegovinian refugees from Montenegro in 1992, is just the final result of a process that was a farce, without response to the need of establishing all the facts… »

Pussy Riot in Montenegro

The Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and the Fast forward Human Rights Film Festival are pleased to announce the new film by Mike Lerner Pussy Riot – a punk prayer to be screened at the new edition of the Festival that will start on 10 December 2013 – on the occasion of Human Rights Day.… »