Press release regarding the detention of Dejan Pantic We, the undersigned, express great concern about the situation in which the former Kosovo police officer, Mr. Dejan Pantić, is. Namely, from the statements of Mr. Pantić’s lawyer, we learned that he is still at the Kosovo police...
Press release regarding the attack on the director of the NGO Aktiv The Open Initiative expresses a strong protest regarding this morning's physical and verbal harassment of the director of the NGO Aktiv, Miodrag Milićević, by members of the Kosovo Police near Jarinje in th north...
PRESS RELEASE Regarding the verdict against Nikola Nedeljković from Belgrade On behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, we take this opportunity to express great concern and protest over the verdict of the Basic Court in Pristina, handed down to a student from Belgrade, Nikola Nedeljković,...
PRESS RELEASE - The establishment of the Community/Association of Serb majority Municipalities We, civil society organizations from the Serb community gathered within the OPEN initiative require from the Government of Kosovo to implement the provisions of the Brussels Agreement and initiate the establishment of the Community/Association...
CSOs condemn hate speech against Albanians by Serbia’s Interior Minister, Aleksandar Vulin We, the undersigned civil society organizations from Kosovo and Serbia, strongly condemn the offensive and derogatory language by Serbia’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin, against Albanians. We urge the Serbian government, respectively the...
On May 17, 2022, while the Celebration of ABC was being held in Peja with first-grade children from Kosovo, Albania, Northern Macedonia, and Presevo, in the part of the seats…...
Statement regarding the campaign calling for the boycott of Serbian products New Social Initiative, Center for Affirmative Social Action, Center for Social Initiatives, and the Forum for Development and Multiethnic Cooperation have accessed a series of legal mechanisms in response to the spread of hate speech...
Joint Statement of Kosovo and Serbia Civil Society Actors Witnessing that Kosovo-Serbia relations are not improving despite the ongoing dialogue process, we express our deep concern for the deterioration of the situation on the ground and in the daily lives of citizens. There is a need...
PRESS RELEASE – Solving accumulated problems through dialogue Press release A group of civil society organizations and media within the OPEN Initiative strongly condemns the use of excessive force by the special police forces of the Government of Kosovo in Serb majority municipalities in northern Kosovo and...
Press release on the tensions in Leposavic and Zubin Potok Press release A group of NGOs gathered around the OPEN initiative and other organizations, and media stress that the unannounced start of the implementation of the decision of the Government of Kosovo to replace traffic license plates...