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NPA’S PARTNER NEW PRESIDENT OF IJAS

Vukasin Obradovic, founder and editor of NPA’s long time media partner Novine Vranjske, was elected as new president of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS), on 3. July 2010. This is the first time in the history of IJAS that a representative of a local media is elected head of the Association.

“Somebody has to do it”

Nikola Lazic, Deputy Editor-in-chief of NPA’s media partner “Vranjske” on journalism and professional media in South Serbia: Being a journalist in Serbian provinces is an unrewarding, uncertain and often a dangerous job. In a small town like Vranje, where everyone is someone's cousin, godparent, school friend or at least an acquaintance from a local bar, it is an extraordinary achievement to write as objectively and fairly as is the case with the newspaper "Vranjske".

Assistance, Advocacy, Access Serbia

NPA is supporting a newly founded local NGO in Serbia that will work with issues related to victim assistance to survivors from accidents caused by explosive remnants of war (ERW).

Exciting meetings in the Balkans

In the course of 15 days 14 students from the Norwegian Labour Movement’s School of Journalism gained a lot of experiences; seeing destruction caused by armed conflicts, tasting Balkan food and meeting journalists that have risked their lives as professional reporters.

The Second Regional Conference of Students’ Organisations from Southeast Europe / Youth from southeast Europe in joint action

Around 100 representatives from high-school student organizations – school parliaments and student councils from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bulgaria, met in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, in the period 18-21 March 2010. The goals of the meeting were to present possibilities of improving the work of school parliaments, including networking and cooperation between the parliaments and also to strengthen links among them across the region.

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

“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 starts process of registration as social cooperative in May 2010.”

Cluster bomb ban treaty reaches 30th ratification milestone

Cluster bomb ban treaty reaches 30th ratification milestone / Will become binding international law on 1 August 2010

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

(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.

Moving borders through music at first World Music Festival in Serbia

The first ever World Music Festival in Serbia was organized in Takovo outside Gornji Milanovac in the period 29-31 May 2009 bringing a rich and varied musical programme to the visitors with bands and folklore performances from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Norway, Turkey, Serbia and Slovenia.

Antiracist Education through Sports in the Balkans

On the 12th of May 2009, key football stakeholders and CSO activists gathered in Sarajevo at the workshop “Education through Sports” to discuss how to combat racism and discrimination on the sport fields in the Balkans. A shared belief was proven that racism and discrimination on the sport fields are only a reflection of society in general.

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