Poverty>Interviews, Editorials, Analysis

30.05.2005 A survey, conducted by UK Department of International Development DFID for the needs of the B&H Council of Ministers, shows that the level of poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina is falling down, but nonetheless, 17.8 percent of the population still lives in poverty.

02.02.2005 The first years of transition in the Balkans saw the exponential rise in the number of NGOs. First came the international ones and soon enough the local followed suit. It is worth mentioning that the Balkans didn’t just join an existing trend, that is, as prominent third sectors existed everywhere else and then came to the Balkans since countries around here started opening. On the contrary, it is more likely that that we participated at equal footing in the emergence of a new global phenomenon, often referred to nowadays as the international civil society.

15.01.2005 Passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina, you will notice a great number of small towns, such as Kakanj, Vitez, Gorazde, Novi Grad… They seem like places that you would avoid even to visit a friend. Bad infrastructure, urban solutions, the decaying facades, shops, the all prevailing grayness is ever present. At the same time, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Brcko and several other bigger cities look great, modern… they look like the rest of the world.

10.12.2004 Poverty is a very widespread phenomenon in whole Bosnia and Herzegovina, therefore also in Prijedor. Numerous international and domestic organizations were, and still are, involved in assistance efforts to help the vulnerable population, thus contributing to the fight against poverty.

30.03.2004 It is general knowledge that economic and social rights are preconditions for exercising civil and political rights. If one cannot survive with its income, it is much harder for them to resist pressures on him regarding ways of achieving civil and political rights. Such a person is focused on generation of income to fulfill basic needs and lacks motivation to reach rational political and civil decision on the basis of appropriate information. This is even more severe if those that provide him with income use different forms of pressures on his decision-making.