CDF: Stopping violence against women in Serbia
CDF Announcement: International Women’s Day Women in Serbia are exposed to drastic gender-based violence. This is evidenced by overwhelming data which states that since the start of 2023, 9 women have been murdered and in 2022, 27 women were murdered as a result of femicide. In response to International Women’s Day, the Center for Democracy Foundation warns of the violence, discrimination and inequality the women of Serbia are exposed to and offers its support to civil society organisations in establishing mechanisms to combat femicide and the urgent response of the competent institutions in preventing violence against women and girls. Women…
CDF: Improving social services in the community, with the aim of improving the quality of life of the poor
Announcement Commemorating World Day of Social Justice To commemorate World Day of Social Justice, the Center for Democracy Foundation emphasises the difficult positions of vulnerable groups in Serbia and the need to improve social services in the local communities, to improve the lives of the poor. Single parents, parents with two or more children, the elderly and beneficiaries of Financial Social Assistance in particular, are suffering. Our analyses indicate that Financial Social Assistance and Child Allowance both need to be increased, which was recommended by the Fiscal Council as a key measure. Furthermore, in its recommendations the European Commission has…
CDF Announcement: International Women’s Day
If Serbia continues at its current pace, it will take the country as long as 59 years to achieve full gender equality – as indicated in data provided in the latest RS Gender Equality Index (2021). In response to International Women’s Day, the Center for Democracy Foundation warns of the inequality, discrimination and violence the women of Serbia are exposed to and reminds those in power of the fact that in addition to an appropriate institutional and legal framework, it is imperative that their practical application is ensured in the achievement of true gender equality. The inequality of women in…
Announcement of the Network of Non-Governmental Organisations – Democracy, Development and Security
As the war in Ukraine continues, day in and day out the number of victims continues to increase, and hundreds of thousands are fleeing the country in search of refuge. Europe is facing a grave challenge – to stop the war and restore peace. The attack of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia only serves to confirm that the military intervention poses a vast threat not only to Ukraine but to the entire European continent. Fear of nuclear war spreads like wildfire, as does the fear that the escalation of the conflict may have unforeseeable global consequences. This is why…
Announcement Commemorating World Day of Social Justice
In commemoration of the World Day of Social Justice, the Center for Democracy Foundation extends a message of solidarity to endangered individuals and groups and petitions state institutions to provide a decent life for all Serbian people, to which our country has committed itself under a series of international acts relative to social law. Serbia is a country with prominent economic and social inequalities. The number of poor is on the rise while welfare aid decreases, year after year. Our inhabitants are among the most impoverished in Europe. According to available data, approximately 450,000 people (6.9%) are currently living in…
CDF Announcement: International Day of Education
To commemorate International Day of Education, the CDF points to the importance of providing inclusive and fair quality education for all, as an important precondition for achieving sustainable development, gender equality and poverty eradication, in accordance with the United Nations SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. It is vital to secure support for those belonging to vulnerable groups so that they too have access to quality education at all levels. The least number of children receiving a preschool education come from families with a lower socio-economic status: the poor, those with lower levels of education, from rural communities and the Roma…
Announcement Ahead of International Human Rights Day
As International Human Rights Day approaches, the Center for Democracy Foundation warns of the unsatisfactory level of respect and protection of a range of very important rights of the people of Serbia. The most critical situation revolves around the right to free, timely and objective information, the freedom of expression and assembly, the right to a healthy environment. Particularly alarming is the fact that many vulnerable groups in our society are dramatically deprived of their basic human rights, such as the right to housing, the right to a dignified life, and the right to access to health care. At this…
CDF: Stop Violence and Ensure the Protection of the Rights of All
Announcement: Center for Democracy Foundation The Center for Democracy Foundation warns of the dramatic rise in violence in our society and calls for the calming of tensions, adherence to democratic principles and the unconditional protection of the rights of all people of Serbia. Great divisions and crises in society, increasingly frequent attacks on political dissidents, media representatives and CSO activists, hate speech, intolerance and violence, must not become an accepted and encouraged model. Quite the contrary! We demand state institutions provide the people with the full right to free expression of opinion and peaceful protests, this means that the competent…
Announcement Ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
As the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty approaches, the Center for Democracy Foundation calls attention to the predominant existential uncertainty and alarming poverty present in Serbia, and calls for the adoption of strategies the primary aim of which are to reduce, that is, to eradicate poverty. Remember, approximately half a million people in our country live below the so-called absolute poverty line, and a quarter of the population lives below the so-called relative poverty line. Serbia has alarmingly high risk of poverty rates and informal employment rates; the number of beneficiaries of financial state aid decreases from year…
Announcement Commemorating World Day of Decent Work
The Center for Democracy Foundation wishes all workers and all people of the Republic of Serbia a happy World Day for Decent Work and reminds us that we are all responsible in the fight for the right to decent work! With the ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Serbia assumed the obligation to adhere to, protect, to provide the means by which to exercise the right to decent work. Still, data shows that most of our inhabitants are denied the right to decent work with regard to the possibility of gaining employment, exercising the right…
FCD Joins in Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights
The Center for Democracy Foundation joins in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the European Council’s Convention on Human Rights. This is a particularly important jubilee for all of Europe, as well as the people of Serbia, which not only ratified this important international instrument, but also incorporated its basic principles into Serbia’s own Constitution. The Convention was signed on this day 70 years ago and represents the very first instrument envisaging the binding nature of the rights established under the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and poses a common mechanism for the protection of human rights in the EU and…
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Through the Implementation of the SDGs
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, celebrated 17 October, the Center for Democracy Foundation indicates that, as in previous years, the most vulnerable category of the unemployed are single parents with children, families with three or more children and those over the age of 65 living alone. The trend toward the feminisation of poverty of those over the age of 65 also continues. The Center for Democracy Foundation marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty via its Sustainable Development for All project. We are working on the dissemination of knowledge, the inclusion of all actors…
