Barbara PrammerOn December 10, the International Human Rights Day, Austrian President of Parliament Barbara Prammer will ask the National Assembly to sign on to UNIFEM’s Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women initiative. In her interview for UNIFEM, Prammer stresses the importance of action at the national level.

Ardita Ramizi BalaTo introduce you to the activities of the Women’s Wellness Centre from Peje/Peć, and to provide a more general overview of the situation of gender-related issues in Kosovo, owpsee talked to Ardita Ramizi Bala, Deputy Director of the Centre.

The European Fund for the Balkans is a multi-year joint initiative of European foundations designed to undertake and support initiatives aimed at bringing the Western Balkans closer to the European Union through grant-giving and operational programmes and, as such, is focused on individuals and organisations from Western Balkan countries.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the European integration process, via the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The controversial heritage of Communism in Europe, made of nostalgia, social injustice and demand for security. Andrea Rossini from Osservatorio sui Balcani, Italian website carrying news from the Balkans and the Caucasus, talked to Slavenka Drakulić, Croatian writer and publicist.

The Metamorphozis Foundation, in cooperation with Megjaši, Cre8ive8 associations, and the British Council, organized the first Digital Storytelling Workshop in Macedonia.

Husein Oručević from OKC Abraševic youth and cultural centre from Mostar talked to Slobodanka Dekić, activist of the Q Organization, about the coming First Queer Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Festival has caused quite a reaction, albeit negative, in the public, earlier this month.

The Citizens of Sarajevo informal group has organized, for the past two months, protests against deteriorating security in the city and, as they say, incompetent and irresponsible authorities. We talked about the protests to Nina Stevanovic, a.k.a. Suncica 24, representatives of Gradjani/ke Sarajeva (Note: the interview was taken before the April 6 protests).