Do we have the right to cultural rights?
2021. „Connecting the Dots“ project This study investigates the accessibility of cultural rights and the reality of the citizens’ right to participate in cultural life, particularly under the circumstances and events instigated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (…) The project is implemented with the financial assistance of the Balkan Trust for Democracy of the German Marshal Fund of the United States-BTD and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade.
The Rule of Law in the Chapter 19 – Social Policy and Employment
Belgrade, 2020 Authors: Milan Radojev, NGO Praxis Nataša Vu?kovi?, Jovana Pantovi?, Foundation „Center for Democracy“
Summary 2020 Report OPC
2020. Author: Ivan Sekulovi? Labour Rights Are Our Rights project
Analysis II Summary Action Plan for Chapter 19
2020. Author: Ivan Sekulovi? Labour Rights Are Our Rights project
Young People and Active Employment Policy Measures
2020. Author: Sarita Bradaš Young People and Active Employment Policy Measures – The Road to (In)Decent Work Labour Rights Are Our Rights project
The Work of the Freelancer
2020. Author: Ivan Sekulovi? The Work of the Freelancer, Globally and in Serbia: Is It a Blade with Too Many Sharp Edges? Labour Rights Are Our Rights project
Availability of Education in Serbia – Main Issues and Recommendations
2020. „Connecting the Dots“ project Summary The right to education is a basic human and civilizational right, established in the Constitution and other fundamental international documents ratified by the Republic of Serbia. This status, i.e., the right to education obliges legislative and executive authorities to ensure the availability of quality, free and regular education to every child at least to the level determined as compulsory (in the Republic of Serbia this is 8 years, plus half a year of compulsory preschool education). Education is key to social advancement and economic well-being, and at the same time it is a condition…
Public Health Standards and EU Chapter 28
2020. „Connecting the Dots“ project SUMMARY Standards within the healthcare system exist to measure the performance and quality of this sector. Certain indicators presented in relation to individual areas of Chapter 28 negotiation are of immediate importance to the assessment of Serbian healthcare standards compared to standards established within EU countries. For this reason, it is interesting that through the analysis of certain segments of Chapter 28, especially in reference to the findings and conclusions of explanatory screening conducted at the end of 2014 and the bilateral meeting held in February 2015, we problematise the issue of existing standards in…
Monitoring Report on measures introduced during the state of emergency in the areas of social policies and employment, public health and consumer protection and education
The monitoring report on measures during the state of emergency in the field of social policy and employment, public health and consumer protection and education consisted of three working groups of the National Convention on the EU (NCEU) – Working Group for Negotiating Chapters 2 and 19 – Social Policy and Employment, Working Group for Negotiating Chapters 25 and 26 – Science and Research and Education and Culture and the Working Group on Negotiating Chapter 28 – Protection consumer and health protection. Following the decision of the NCEU Program Council, we joined analyzes of these three working groups. The aim…
THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC ON THE POSITION AND RIGHTS OF WORKERS IN SERBIA
WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO FRONTLINE AND INFORMAL ECONOMY WORKERS AND MULTIPLY AFFECTED WORKER CATEGORIES (Belgrade, June/July 2020)…
CDF Annual Report 2019
In 2019 the Center for Democracy Foundation worked on the basis of the Strategic Development Plan (SDP) 2017-2019 and in accordance with the Action plan for 2019 documents. All the priorities, objectives, expected outcomes and activities were agreed upon these documents , on the level of Foundation`s bodies and staff. The Action Plan for 2019 was adopted by the Management Board in February 2019. Accordingly, the Foundation`s work continued to be streamlined through three major programmatic fields: Program 1 – EU integration of Serbia, rule of law and good governance, Program 2 – Employment, labour rights and social cohesion, and…
EU Support to Serbia and COVID-19
Analysis EU Support to Serbia and Covid-19 by Ivan Vejvoda The end objective of this text is a deliberation regarding the extent to which the EU helped and is still helping Serbia, why has the EU’s reaction in light of the ongoing crisis seen as slower than it should ideally be, and above all, to establish whether European solidarity really is just a fairy-tale. The European Union is by far, the largest donor of non-refundable aid to Serbia. Until 2018, EU assistance amounted to EUR 3.6 billion, while its member states, individually, added more than half a billion to this…
