We strongly condemn the violent disruption of the screening of the film “Roda” by Albanian director Isa Qosja, which took place last night as part of the Džada Film Festival in Zabjelo, Podgorica. According to eyewitness reports, a group of aggressors stormed the screening and interrupted it simply because the film was in the Albanian language. This act… »
A group of non-governmental organizations and civic activists today submitted a complaint to the Ombudsman of RTCG regarding the programme “Loudly: The Face and Reverse of Controversial Monuments in Montenegro” broadcast on 1 September. The complaint was submitted by: Media Center, Human Rights Action (HRA), Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Centre for Women’s and Peace Education ANIMA,… »
When speaking about the nineties, we most often recall crimes, sanctions, poverty, and destruction, and rarely those who opposed such politics – those who raised their voices, wrote, protested, and saved others because they believed things had to be different. This exhibition is an attempt to express gratitude to them, it was said at the… »
Civil society organizations and civic activists express strong opposition to the decision of the Council for Naming Neighbourhoods, Streets, and Squares of the Capital City of Podgorica to name a street after Darko Vlahović, a junior sergeant of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), who was killed on 28 December 1991 on the territory of the… »
On 25 August, the Centre for Civic Education (CCE), on behalf of 38 NGOs and 13 civic activists, informed the EU Delegation to Montenegro about the smear campaign targeting our colleague Tea Gorjanc Prelević, a distinguished human rights defender and Executive Director of Human Rights Action (HRA). The EU Delegation has responded to this matter,… »
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared – 30 August, the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) points to the long-standing institutional passivity and the lack of political will to shed light on the fate of all persons who went missing during the wars of the 1990s in the territory of the former… »
Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Foundation M90, and Cultural Front from Serbia, in cooperation with the Municipality of Budva, will open the exhibition “The Nineties: From Dissent to Resistance” on Monday, 1 September 2025, at 8:00 PM, in the Church of Santa Maria in Punta, in Budva. At a time when wars, hatred, poverty, and… »
We express our strongest protest against the attack by MP Zdenka Popović of Democratic Montenegro on human rights defender Tea Gorjanc Prelević, a woman who has, for years, consistently and indiscriminately fought for the rule of law. In doing so, Popović – Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro, member of the Women’s Leadership Network,… »
Non-governmental organizations and civic activists welcome the decision of the Public Institution “Ratković Evenings of Poetry” to remove the name of Radovan Karadžić, a war criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war, from the list of award recipients published on its official website. … »
Civil society strongly condemns the multi-day attack by Democratic Montenegro on the person and integrity of our colleague Tea Gorjanc Prelević, due to her clear, principled and well-argued position that insists on the law and international standards, including the right to criticise the authorities. We remind that in a democratic society, different opinions are not… »