This Week's News

24.07.2008 Two days after the arrest of Radovan Kara Karadžić, one of the three remaining Hagua fugitives accused by the Hague Tribunal on nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, we have the first reactions of the Serbian civil sector.

23.07.2008 Over 400 cyclists that took part in the recreational Giro di Sarajevo ride, took to the streets of Sarajevo last Sunday, July 20, aiming to point out at the lack of proper cycling lanes in the city. The ride was open to all citizens with bycicles older than 12 years of age.

22.07.2008 Radovan Karadžić, one of the three remaining `the Hague fugitives` (together with Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić), who faces war crimes and crimes against humanity charges at the Internationl Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia for crimes committed during the Bosnian War 1992-1995, was arrested in Belgrade yesterday, after 12 years in hiding.

22.07.2008 The Association of Journalists of Macedonia demands from Greek authorities to put an end to the practice of selecting the events that it deems appropriate to be covered by Macedonian media and journalists, depending on their own agreement with those events.

21.07.2008 The Pravo na grad (Right to a City) Initiative and Zelena akcija environmental association claim they have learnt from trusted sources that the Hoto Group intends to start demolition of the building of the old printing company on Preradovic Square 6 on August 1.

21.07.2008 In its efforts to support the recognizable model of post-conflict education that is taught at UWCiM, Czech Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs donated books to broaden and enrich process of learning for 200 UWCiM`s students from all around the world. Thanks to the donation United World College in Mostar will begin next school year offering 129 new valuable books to its students and teachers.

18.07.2008 Animal Friends filed an initiative with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction and to Mirela Holy, Member of Sabor, to ban the sale and distribution of plastic bags in Croatia.

17.07.2008 To mark the European Year of Inter-Cultural Dialogue, the Youth NGO ONO from Novi Sad, in cooperation with the Youth Assistance Centre from Maribor, Slovenia, organized a youth exchange programme More Attention, Please!

15.07.2008 The Zelena Akcija (Green Action) condemned the adoption of the Draft Law that proposes reducing the area of Medvednica protected landscape, at the Government session of July 10, 2008.

14.07.2008 In a letter to the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lazăr Comănescu, and to the Serbian Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, Romano Them has strongly criticised the planned transfer of expertise between the two countries in the field of reintegration of forcibly repatriated Roma.