Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
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Organisation Serbia on the Move was founded in 2009 with the mission of empowering, motivating and encouraging individuals to be proactive in creating a higher quality of life in Serbia.
Its mission is to build a strong and responsible civil society by motivating individuals to take an active part in creating changes that will improve their lives.
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House for Human Rights and Democracy is an organisation committed to building a democratic and open society based on the respect of human rights and the rule of law. It is committed to building a democratic and open society based on the respect of human rights and the rule of law.
Human Rights and Democracy House educate citizens about human rights and how to exercise these rights, advocating specific statutory provisions and their implementation in the field of human rights and democratization, and monitors the work of state institutions in these areas.
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Law Scanner is a non-governmental organisation based in Serbia.
The main goal of the Law Scanner is to protect patients from medical errors, doctors’ mistakes and to increase the responsibility of doctors in carrying out their activities. The Law Scanner also protects the social rights of citizens. Social care system includes economic, political, legal measures and activities to prevent possible individual and group social problems. Every citizen has social rights despite age, gender, ethnicity or religious affiliation.
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Transparency Serbia is non- partisan, non-governmental and non-for profit voluntary organisation established with the aim of curbing corruption in Serbia.
The organisation is a part of the network of Transparency International and, at the same time, a local non-government organisation, registered in accordance with regulations of the Republic of Serbia. Transparency Serbia’s main goal is to increase transparency in the work of the state as a way to prevent abuse of public authority for private purposes.
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CRTA is a group of activists and journalists that engages with both citizens and institutions in an effort for higher institutional and public officials’ accountability in Serbia through monitoring and oversight of their work.
Since 2009 CRTA empowers citizens to participate in political process and demand accountability from their representatives. Aiming to establish accountability as core democratic value in Serbian political culture, CRTA advocacy efforts rely on the three-pronged approach: a) accountability in the work of politicians, b) institutional accountability, and c) accountability in public finances. CRTA provided citizens with opportunity to directly engage in accountability advocacy and monitoring by having developed several accountability and transparency online tools: Istinomer, Otvoreni parlament, Prati pare and Vodite računa. Through these initiatives CRTA increased its influence among the Serbian public and positioned itself as credible actor in raising demand for accountability in politicians’ and public institutions’ work.
By advocating for accountability to take roots and become a guiding principle in Serbian democracy, CRTA initiated informed public debate about accountability among both politicians and citizens.
Web: http://crta.rs/en/
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TAG Media is a full-service agency focused on providing video production and digital marketing services.
As part of IT TV Production, in 2011 a digital marketing and Web development department was established, which provides complete support for the online presence of companies of all types.
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BIRODI is a think-thank non-governmental organisation active in the field of social and political sciences, conducting applied research, analysing, proposing and implementing viable solutions within the political life and civil sector.
BIRODI’s’s mission is to put research into the function of democratisation and to increase the impact of stakeholders in the creation of societal development.
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CINS is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to investigative journalism according to the internationally recognized standards, including the use of new tools and techniques.
Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia was founded by the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia with the aim to show that independent journalism in line with the highest professional standards is possible in Serbia. CINS investigates organised crime, politics, business, frauds, energy, environment, corruption, judiciary, sports and other important parts of society.
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The Matra programme supports countries in Southeast and Eastern Europein the transition to a pluralist and democratic society, governed by the rule of law.
Matra supports activities that encourage the process of change and strengthen relations between the Netherlands and Matra countries. The programme works with civil society and central and local authorities alike. Most projects take the form of twinning, i.e. partnership between a Dutch and a local organisation.
BIRN project supported by the Matra programme aims to promote and strengthen criminal justice as a first pillar of transitional justice by organising focus groups with the relevant stakeholders as well as by regular, in-depth, high standard reporting on war crimes processing from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo, with a goal of building capacities of local journalists, relevant officials, judiciary, law enforcement agencies, legal professionals, civil society actors on addressing impunity and the challenges of the transitional justice processes.
Ahead of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic’s war crimes verdict next week, BIRN has compiled all its reports on the landmark case into a free, downloadable e-book.
BIRN published a new e-book on Tuesday entitled ‘Ratko Mladic: From Battlefield to Courtroom’, ahead of the former Bosnian Serb commander’s trial verdict on November 22.
The e-book, which is downloadable free of charge, contains all BIRN’s reports on the case from the point when Mladic was transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague to face trial to his defence’s recent requests to postpone the verdict on grounds of ill-health.
“Our journalists have following every hearing in their landmark trial over the course of the past six years. We also reported regularly on developments outside of the courtroom that are relevant to the case,” said Marija Ristic, director of BIRN’s transitional justice programme.
“Ahead of the next week’s verdict, we believe this could be a valuable resource for anyone interested in getting all the facts from this important process in one place,” she added.
The e-book contains more than 500 articles and runs to more than 600 pages.
It is the second to be published this month, after BIRN also issued an in-depth e-book containing reports and analyses about the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
Mladic’s trial, which began in 2011, lasted for 530 days and heard evidence from 591 witnesses, of whom 377 appeared in court.
Mladic is charged with the genocide of over 7,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica in 1995, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, which allegedly reached the scale of genocide in several other municipalities in 1992, terrorising the population of besieged Sarajevo and taking UN peacekeepers hostage.
According to the indictment, he used military force to implement a joint criminal enterprise, spearheaded by the Bosnian Serb political leadership and former president Radovan Karadzic, aimed at creating a Serb-dominated state.
Mladic, now aged 74, has denied committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To download the e-book, click here.
