The Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Serbia presented Sonja Biserko with the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Award. The award is presented by the Oslo University Norway to individuals actively committed to human rights protection.
Posts Tagged ‘Society’
Diaspora urged to help earthquake town
November 9th, 2010 |
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Minister for the Diaspora Srđan Srećković has called on Serbs living abroad to help residents of the Kraljevo municipality. Thousands of homes in this central Serbian town and surrounding areas were severely damaged by an earthquake last week.
Major road reopens after huge landslide
November 9th, 2010 |
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A huge landslide on the M-22 – known as Ibarska highway – shut down traffic last night piling up 20 meters of earth and rock onto the road. Emergency services have opened the road to traffic again on Tuesday afternoon, warning drivers to pay attention to road signs put up near the landslide location.
Firefox web browser celebrates six years
November 9th, 2010 |
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One of the world’s most popular and used web browsers, Mozilla’s Firefox, today marks six years since its initial release. When the new free and open-source cross-platform browser hit the web on November 9, 2004, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was dominating the market at some 98 percent share, and no real competition.
Smokers have 3 days to stop poisoning others
November 8th, 2010 |
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A law designed to help protect non-smokers from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke will be implemented in three days, the Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said that 76.9 percent of children in Serbia live in families in which they are exposed to second-hand smoke, and added that the children of smokers are more liable to become smokers themselves.
Earthquake town in “race against time”
November 8th, 2010 |
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As aftershock subside in Kraljevo, central Serbia, its residents left with damaged homes during last week’s earthquake are scrambling to finish repairs. Many Kraljevo residents work to repair their homes even during the night, fearing heavy rainfall, while a 2.8 Richter scale tremor was recorded this morning. It was one in a series of aftershocks that have been growing progressively weaker.
Serbian film wins at German festival
November 8th, 2010 |
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Oleg Novković’s “White, White World” is the winner of the Cottbus Festival of Eastern European Film, the festival organizer stated on Sunday. Director Novković and producer Uliks Fehmiu won the award for a daring depiction of the everyday anguish experienced by the character of an outsider, the festival stated in Cottbus on Sunday.
Serbia’s Ivanović wins in Bali
November 7th, 2010 |
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Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanović won the Tournament of Champions in Bali on Sunday.
The Bali tournament was organized for the first time in 2009. This year, its prize fund totaled USD 600,000.
Serbs from north visit south KM cemetary
November 6th, 2010 |
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Around 500 Serbs from northern Kosovska Mitrovica visited the Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the southern part of the city early on Saturday, on All Souls’ Day.
No incident occurred, and the Serbs were escorted by members of the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) to the southern Kosovska Mitrovica cemetery, in which over 90 percent of tombstones had been destroyed.
B92 reporter nominated for award
November 6th, 2010 |
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B92 reporter Brankica Stanković has been nominated for 2010 International Press Freedom Award awarded by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).
Stanković has won a number of prestigious awards for her investigative journalism including the 2008 Bronze Olive Award for her report on Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić.
Serbian, Polish culture ministries cooperate
November 5th, 2010 |
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Serbian and Polish culture ministers Nebojša Bradić and Bogdan Zdrojewski signed a Letter of Intent at the Serbian government on Friday. The letter concerns cooperation between the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
“A Serbian Film” earns ban in Spain
November 5th, 2010 |
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A court in San Sebastian, Spain, has banned the screening of “A Serbian Film” at the city’s Sci-Fi and Horror Week event. The decision came as a “preventive measure”, said reports.
Woman leaves house to victims of domestic violence
November 5th, 2010 |
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A woman from ZajeÄar has left her house in her will to victims of domestic violence, so the town will once again have a “safe houseâ€, VeÄernje Novosti reports.
The safe house in ZajeÄar, which was closed six months ago, was the only refuge for women who fell victim to domestic violence from Serbia’s easter region of TimoÄka Krajina.
Two dead in crash on outskirts of Belgrade
November 4th, 2010 |
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Two persons died this morning at 07:10 CET in a traffic accident on the outskirts of Belgrade, emergency services have confirmed. Two more persons were seriously hurt, while one sustained light injuries.
Medieval monastery damaged in quake
November 4th, 2010 |
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Culture Minister NebojÅ¡a Bradić will visit the SPC monastery of ŽiÄa, near Kraljevo, following yesterday’s earthquake which caused the most damage in the area. The earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale in its epicenter, about 10 kilometers north-west from the town of Kraljevo, damaged the north wall of the 13th century Serb Orthodox monastery.
“Negotiations to free captured sailors”
November 2nd, 2010 |
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Negotiations are ongoing with Somali pirates to free 24 sailors, a Serbian man among them, who were kidnapped on Saturday. B92 has unofficially learned this from the Montenegro-based Hemosan company which employed the Serb and three Montenegrins who were aboard the hijacked tanker.
Serb, Montenegrins among kidnapped sailors
November 1st, 2010 |
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A Serb and three Montenegrins are among the sailors from a Greek-managed oil tanker taken hostage by Somali pirates. The Polar, which is variously described in reports as Panama and Liberia-flagged, had a crew of 24 and was hijacked on Saturday.
Belgrade book fair closes
October 31st, 2010 |
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The 55th International Belgrade Book Fair was closed today.
The ceremonial presentation of the Open Book by Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Christer Asp to Brazilian Ambassador to Serbia Dante Coelho De Lima, Portuguese Ambassador to Serbia Caetano Luis Pequito and Angolan Ambassador to Serbia Toko Diakenga Serao, whose countries will be guests of honor at the next year’s Book Fair, closed the 55th International Belgrade Book Fair.
IM: Belgrade is safe city
October 30th, 2010 |
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Serbian IM Ivica DaÄić presented the annual security report to the City Assembly on Friday and said that Belgrade was a safe city, especially for foreigners.
Only one percent of foreign visitors had problems in Belgrade, he said.
“It’s important to report news truthfullyâ€
October 30th, 2010 |
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Deputy PM Božidar Äelić says that it is very important for the process of EU integrations that media in Serbia report news truthfully.
He said that the media in modern democratic society were nobody’s instrument but participants in society.