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GRASSROOTS DIALOGUES IN SANDZAK: HELPING TO BRIDGE DIVIDES AND ARTICULATE THE REGION'S TRUE INTERESTS

The project focuses grassroots dialogues seeking to bridge the region's divides and articulate its true interests. More specifically, over four thematic workshops, one whole-day conference and a book of conference proceedings, it addresses political divides, religious tensions, gender equality (against the backdrop of traditional and conservative perception of the role of women) and entrepreneurship (spiraling down after the economic boom in 1990s). Those concerns are the more so important when bearing in mind the avenues for progress and emancipation SAA opens to Serbia and all its regions. The project's target groups are: local parliamentarians, including those of the two major Bosniak opposing parties; representatives of religious communities (Islamic and Serbian Eastern Orthodox); women involved in the region's social, economic and political life; local entrepreneurs; representatives of local CSOs; and members of Sandzak's intelligentsia. The project final beneficiaries are: all factors/players in the region's political, social and economic life; religious communities; civil society as a whole; authorities at the republican level concerned with security issues, Activities and more adequate political arrangements for the region, including decentralization; international factors concerned with confidence-building, crisis-prevention and crisis-management in South East Europe. By initiating dialogues that seek to bridge political, social and religious divides in Sandzak and bringing together stakeholders that best reflect those divides, the project seeks to contribute to democratic political participation and representation, as well as to peaceful conciliation of group interests, to combat discrimination on gender and ethnic grounds and to build up the region's energy for positive change.

This 18-month program is realized with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Commission to Serbia under the EuropeAid program.

SANDZAK AND EUROPEAN PROSPECTS

Press conference of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

On July 16, 2010 the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a press conference that rounded off the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests" realized in 2009-2010 with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Union - EIDHR. The output of the project's last activity - a rounding off conference in Novi Pazar - the publication titled "Sandzak and European Prospects" was launched on the occasion. The Helsinki Committee has been monitoring the situation of human rights in Sandzak for years. Recent developments in and about Sandzak and each and every regime's discriminatory attitude towards the...   MS Word (33kb) >>>

CORRUPTION AS AN OBSTACLE COURSE FOR EU ACCESSION: INSTITUTIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION MECHANISMS AT LOCAL LEVEL

The fourth in the series of workshops carried out under the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests"

On December 10, 2009 in Novi Pazar, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights organized the fourth in the series of workshops planned under the project that is being realized with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia. The...
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THE STATE SHOULD ABIDE BY THE LAWS IT ADOPTED

The third in the series of workshops carried out under the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests"

On October 5, 2009 in Novi Pazar, the Helsinki Committee organized yet another workshop planned under the aforementioned project - this time to explore the avenues for overcoming religious tensions and divides in Sandzak. Keynote speakers were Pavel Domonji, expert in interethnic relations and head of the Committee's...
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BELGRADE AUTHORITIES OBSTRUCT CHANGES IN SANDZAK, WHEREAS THE AGENCY FOR PRIVATIZATION FABRICATES SOCIAL POVERTY

The second in the series of workshops carried out under the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests"

On June 29, 2009, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights organized the second in the series of workshops planned under the project that is being realized with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Commission to Serbia...
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VIOLENCE COULDN'T CARE LESS WHETHER A WOMAN IS COVERED OR NOT

The first in the series of workshops carried out under the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests"

On May 16, 2009, the Helsinki Committee organized the first workshop under the afore-mentioned project that is being realized with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Commission to the Republic of Serbia under EIDHR program. The workshop on gender equality titled "Position of...
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