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12.06.2008 The DOBRO (GOOD) altruist asociation organized, on June 6-7, 2008, a humanitarian action One GOOD, Hundreds of Hands, Thousands Fed!, aimed to collect food and hygiene products for the needy citizens of the Canton of Sarajevo.

18.12.2007 The Cluster for Children, a group of nongovernmental organizations woking on improvement of status of children, demands from the Belgrade City Assembly, the Mayor and the City Council to urgently prepare and adopt a Local Action Plan for children of Belgrade, to secure the institutional framefork and budget suppot for its implementation.

19.10.2007 About 300,000 people in Kosovo live in utmost poverty, and the province remains the poorest region in Western Balkans, finds the survey conducted by the UN, prepared for October 17, the International Day for Eradication of Poverty, marked in the world last Wednesday.

20.09.2007 The Civic Initiatives Youth Programme was selected as Contact Civil Society Organization for the Youth, under the Government Programme for inclusion of CSOs in the process of implementation of Serbian Poverty Reduction Strategy.

06.03.2007 The Republic of Croatia and EU signed yesterday, March 5, 2007, the Joint Inclusion Memorandum (JIM). The JIM defines the strengths and weaknesses of social policies designed to fight poverty, as well as challenges and priorities of future social policies.

12.12.2006 On the occasion of December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Serbia invited all relevant social actors, especially the state institutions, to contribute to the fight against poverty through protection and strengthening of human rights culture.

06.11.2006 Viktorija Vojnic-Hajduk and her son Ivan were found in their decrepit house in Subotica, several days after they both died of hunger, report the Belgrade based media.

01.11.2006 The Team for Implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) started a new initiative dedicated to better exchange of information and strengthened cooperation between the civil society and state institutions, as well as stronger participation of civil society in all stages of PRS implementation.

21.08.2006 Serbian organization the People’s Parliament became a member, in beginning of August, of the Stop Child Poverty global campaign.

07.07.2006 Predrag Markovic, Speaker of Serbian Skupstina (the parliament), and Lance Clarke, UNDP Permanent Representative in Serbia, signed a letter of understanding on assistance to five parliamentary committees, for activities dedicated to reduction of poverty.

05.12.2005 The Board of the “Living and Working Together” Coalition adopted the draft-Social Programme in its meeting of November 24, 2005. After it passes the round of debate inside the civil society, the draft will be presented to the House of Representatives of the B&H Parliament.

10.11.2005 Sixty percent of Albanian citizens live in poverty and, to make matters worse, majority of them are young under the age of 21. Keeping in mind these numbers, reported by UNDP, the Chairman of “Albanian Society for All Ages” (ASAG), Nora Malaj addressed all government institutions in her statement for the media, with a demand to take all necessary steps to reduce this phenomenon.

29.09.2005 A report published by World Bank in Prishtina on Tuesday, September 27, points out that poverty in Kosovo is a widespread phenomenon, but direct actions can be taken.

09.09.2005 The House of Representative of the B&H Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution in support of the demands presented by the civil societies organizations involved in the Global Call to Action Against Poverty.

26.08.2005 At the beginning of the week, Suvareka MA agreed with the American Refugees Committee (ARC) the construction of 14 residential houses, including other accompanying infrastructure such as the road, water supply and sewage network. ARC will allocate 320.000€ for the construction of these houses, with Suvareka Municipality contributing additional 6000€ of its own to the implementation of the project.

23.08.2005 On 10 September, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is organising White Band Day 2 – the second in a series of massive international mobilisations. GCAP will send a clear message to governments across the world that politicians must keep their promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

12.08.2005 “The average Croatian family has problems to cover the costs of a child birth, a wedding ceremony or a funeral, having in mind that their monthly income is barely sufficient to cover the costs of basic subsistence”, Kresimir Sever, the President of the Independent Trade Unions of Croatia, said last Wednesday.

04.07.2005 One in five citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina spends less than 2KM on food per day, while one million citizens live with growing concerns that they could fall below the poverty line sooner or later. Poor B&H citizens belong to the group of 2.73 people in the world that live on less than two US Dollars per day. Every three seconds, a child dies somewhere in the world of, otherwise, easily preventable diseases or as a direct result of poverty induced famine.

17.06.2005 The Economic Policy Planning and Implementation Unit (EPPU) of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the UNDP B&H, the Swiss Cooperation and Development Agency, the DFID and teh World Bank, host the Round Table discussion on poverty reduction, held yesterday and today in Sarajevo.

15.03.2005 To overcome the youth poverty in Serbia, it is necessary to involve the young population in the decision-making processes on local, but also on state level. The Group 484 NGO conducted a survey on youth poverty in Serbia, with the goal to identify the levels of poverty with that population and to collect the youth’s proposal how to eliminate poverty.