News Archive

TEN YEARS ON: WOMEN’S IDP AND REFUGEE CLUB - LINGVA KRALJEVO

• 23.03.10

“A Little Oasis” - NPA’s partner Lingva from Kraljevo has been running the Women’s IDP and Refugee Club for the past ten years. In the beginning, the club consisted of 60 women for whom Lingva provided basic tools and raw materials (wool, knitting needles and threads) to create their handicrafts. Today, the Club has over 120 members - women IDPs and refugees - and their handicraft production has expanded to hand weaving, woodwork, jute and hemp processing, pottery, vitrage and Serbian winter pantry mainstays. Their items are sold at the club’s premises, fairs in nearby towns and tourist spas, while Italian and Japanese entrepreneurs even place orders for their products a few times a year. According to the Club’s coordinator Dusanka Jakovljevic, “The club will take a big and important step towards sustainability when it registers as social cooperative in April 2010.”

Montenegro joins nations leading cluster bomb ban treaty / Greece and Serbia are the only holdouts in southeastern Europe

• 04.02.10

(London, 4 February 2010) – Montenegro’s ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 25 January places it among the first 30 states that will trigger the Convention’s entry into force, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today. Thirty ratifications are needed for the Convention to enter into force and become binding international law six months later; currently, 104 countries have signed and Montenegro is the 27th to ratify.

NPA received visitors from the Norwegian Parliament 4. May

• 23.05.07

A parliamentary delegation from the Norwegian Parliament visited NPA and were briefed on NPA's mine clearance projects on the border between Serbia and Croatia on the 4th of May. The parliamentarians Jan Bøhler, Dag Ole Teigen, Jorodd Asphjell, Gunn Olsen, Sonja Mandt Bartholsen and three advisors Tor Arne Ljunggren, Vigdis Henriette Nilsen, and Egil T. Ekhaugen from the Norwegian Labour Party were in the field where they got acquainted with the mine threat in the border area between Serbia and Croatia. The parliamentary delegation visited the site of the future border crossing Jamena (Serbia) - Strosinci (Croatia). Norway's Ambassador to Croatia, Elisabeth Walaas, and Norway's Ambassador to Serbia, Haakon Blankenborg, were also present.

NPA SEE Youth Initiatives Program - Presentation of the Youth Hostel Project

• 09.05.07

In partnership with NPA, Youth Club "Under the Same Sun", Jablanica, BiH, implemented the project "International Youth Summer Camp on the Jablanica lake 2006". During the implementation they managed to get support of local authorities and Danish partners for developing the idea of transformation of an unneeded old ruined school into a youth hostel.

"Pescanik" promotion in Podgorica

• 28.11.07

November 2007, Podgorica: The promotion of NPA’s partner Pescanik radio show and 9th edition of the book "Pescanik FM" was held in bookstore Karver, in Podgorica, Montenegro, on November 27, 2007.

New Foot for Courageous Saranda from Kosovo

• 21.03.07

Norwegian People's Aid is supporting Saranda Kastrati from Kosovo with a new prosthesis. Saranda was employed by NPA as a deminer and later community liaison officer in Kosovo, and she was injured while clearing mines in Kosovo in the year 2000.

NPA Partner "Pescanik" receives "Signal for Europa 2006" award

• 22.03.07

Authors of "Pescanik" Svetlana Lukic and Svetlana Vukovic are one of the laureates of the annual Freedom Award - "Signal for Europa 2006" granted by Reporters Without Borders, Austria. "It's good news to hear about the award. For Ceca and me and all our guests in Pescanik it means that our work is noticed and recognised. It also means that chauvinists follow our programme and realise, even better than we do, the importance of the topics we adress in Pescanik" says Svetlana Lukic.

NPA Youth Initiatives Program: Croatian Youth Network, Zagreb: Public debate on youth policy

• 22.10.07

Norwegian People's Aid Closes Reconstruction for Return Project in Croatia

• 17.09.07

After six years of implementation, Norwegian People's Aid marked the closure of its Reconstruction for Return Project in Croatia on Friday 14. September.

WOMEN CAN DO IT PROGRAMME - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WCDI GLOBAL CONFERENCE

• 04.09.07

Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) and the Norwegian Labour Party (NLP) are organising the First Women Can Do It (WCDI) Global Conference in Belgrade, Serbia from November 16 to 18 in Sava Center.

NPA SEE Youth Initiatives Program

• 31.01.07

REGIONAL MEETING: Rhythm Changes, Demilitarization of Mind and other 2007 plansJanuary 26-27, 2006, Hotel «JEZERO», Palic, Serbia

FOCID KOVIN - WE CAN DO IT BETTER

• 31.01.07

In December, FOCID – Fund for Civil Society from Kovin has organized promotion of children rights in centre of Kovin (Vojvodina) and New Year parties in schools where they implement program for integration of Roma children into the regular education system. FOCID activists have also presented the project We can do it better that is supported by NPA SEE in School Management in Zrenjanin.

Get Out To Vote – Women Can Do It

• 19.01.07

Women Can Do It network in Serbia organized GOTV campaign in 25 towns all around the country. Campaign has two main goals: to invite women to vote in Parliamentary Elections, scheduled for 21st January 2007 and to enforce political parties in Serbia to candidate 30% of women from the lists to be members of the future Serbian Parliament. Campaign will reach more than 30.000 women.

End of the demining season 2006 – Norwegian People’s Aid, B&H

• 19.01.07

At the end of the demining season 2006, NPA Mine Action Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully finalized one more Community Integrated Mine Action Project CIMAP - Grebnice (BiH North). For the period of April-November 2006, 11 different clearance and technical survey tasks, delegated by BHMAC, were demined by manual deminers, machines and mine detection dogs.

LIMA CONFERENCE ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS, 23-25 MAY 2007

• 11.06.07

The Lima Conference on Cluster Munitions, the second conference in the international process to ban cluster munitions was held in Peru 23-25 May 2007. The conference was concluded with widespread support for a new treaty, as 28 new countries joined the 46 states that launched a new process in Oslo in February this year, committing themselves to drafting of a new international instrument banning all cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians by the end of 2008.

NPA SEE Youth Initiatives Program - Youth Action for Decent Work

• 08.06.07

Educational Center Leskovac, supported by its partner Norwegian People's Aid, participated at the international Conference "Youth Action for Decent Work" held in Berlin from 01-02 June along with the 200 young people from all continents.

Bergen, Norway - Undiscovered magic

• 30.05.07

By Dejan Miladinovic -
In a trip organised by Norwegian People's Aid, graphic designers from the association of local print media "Local Press" Dejan Miladinovic, Nenad Gavrilovic, Djordje Alimpijevic and Bojan Mandic, led by the Secretary General of Local Press, Snezana Milosevic, paid a 7-day working visit to Norway.

NPA SEE Youth Initiatives Program - NPA Regional Meeting "NPA Partners' Plans for Local and Regional Projects in 2008"

• 24.05.07

May 17-20, 2007, Hotel "Bistrica", Jahorina, Bosnia & Herzegovina
On May 17-20, 2007, representatives of 17 youth partner CSOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia (30 youth activists) convened, presented their work, discussed their plans for 2008 and started planning new ways of regional cooperation and networking.

NPA and the Serbian Mine Action Centre opened new mine clearance project in Serbia 17. October 2006

• 01.11.06

NPA was asked by the Serbian Mine Action Centre in December 2005 to look into the possibility to assist the Serbian government in clearing the remaining minefields on the border between Serbia and Croatia of landmines. An area of 4.3 million m2 of land is contaminated with landmines on the Serbian border with Croatia. To date 2,2 million m2 have been cleared, and 3.5 million m2 have been reduced through survey. The minefields are located in the area of Sid municipality. NPA is supported by the Croatian demining firm DOK-ING that provides NPA with a MV-4 mini-flail for the first year of operations in Serbia. The project lies under the NPA mine action programme in Croatia, as NPA works on both sides of the border. The mine clearance project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Asocijacija nezavisnih elektronskih medija

• 19.09.06

ANEM Statement



UNACCEPTABLE NEW ATTACKS ON DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND RETURN OF HATE SPEECH



BELGRADE, September 11, 2006 – The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly protests over the article published in today’s edition of the Belgrade daily Kurir, which is just the continuation of unacceptable nationalistic campaign against the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Ivana Dulic-Markovic.

NPA SEE Youth Initiatives Program

• 30.06.06

Educational Center Leskovac

Jablanica District Conference: “ Improvement of life quality of youth based on socially responsible business and public sectors”, June 03-04, 2006, Motel «Predejane», Predejane/Leskovac, Serbia

On June 03-04, 2006 , NPA's partner Educational Center Leskovac organized a conference, gathering 72 representatives from school parliaments and public and business sectors from the Jablanica District.

NPA Partners receive awards

• 30.06.06

Veteran journalists of Radio B92 and authors of Pescanik (Hourglass), Svetlana Lukic and Svetlana Vukovic, are recipients of the City of Belgrade's Journalism Award in 2006. Jury elaborated on its decision by saying that authors "have chosen a hard and unpopular path to uncover what is so willingly being concealed", adding that the "authors persistently remind us of the lost civil energy and unabashedly point out citizens' missed opportunities to live a better life".