NEWSLETTER No. 4

NIS

Cooperation with the NGO CORPS - Leskovac

In November, the Forum for Civil Rights established cooperation with the NGO CORPS (Centre for Training and Development of Agriculture and Village) from Leskovac. Among other activities, this organisation is involved in educating rural population. Within the project ''Behind the iron curtain'', realised by CORPS in the territory of Bojnik Municipality, the Forum for Civil Rights has participated in organising two forums and a workshop.

Trainers from the Forum for Civil Rights,  Dragan Corbic and Slavisa Kovacevic were guests and lecturers at the forums titled: ''History and development of democracy and democratic relations'' and ''Elections and electoral procedure''. The workshop held in Sijarinska Banja was titled ''Establishment and work of NGOs''. Jadranka Vukovic also participated as a trainer at the workshop.

The goal of this project is, among other things, work on solving problems in the local communities of Bojnik Municipality. The realisation of this project is to contribute the development of better cooperation between the representatives of the local government and political parties and the citizens of Bojnik and the neighbouring villages, and the NGO sector representatives as well. 

Within the project ''Promotion of pluralism by strengthening NGOs and the civil society in Serbia'', the Forum for Civil Rights had a TV broadcast in November, titled ''Cooperation between the NGO sector and the local authorities''. The participants of the broadcast were Olgica-Beba-Bajic from the NGO Society for the Development of Creativity from Aleksinac and Jadranka Vukovic, as a representative of the Forum for Civil Rights. 

There was also a radio broadcast titled ''Institutions and values of the civil society''. The speaker was Slavisa Kovacevic, B.A. in Political Science and Assistant Professor at Nis Law School.

There was also a forum titled ''Basic values of democracy''. It lasted over two hours. Although the number of participants was less than 50, a lively discussion developed at the forum between the attendants and the lecturers. The participants expressed their doubts and trepidations as to the further reform development of Serbia, that is, the peaceful and  prosperous future of the citizens.

The IRC (International Rescue Committee) office has been opened in Nis – this is a non-governmental, non-profit, international humanitarian organisation. It was founded in  1933 by Albert Einstein.

The Nis Office is currently collecting data on the local non-governmental organisations and their work.