Former Yugoslavia

Articles

• Interviews on Secularism in Serbia - Part 3 (Biljana Stojkovic, Mirko Dordevic)
  6 December 2008, by Women in Black - Belgrade, Serbia

  This video consists of interviews with Professor Biljana Stojkovic (an evolutionary biologist, university of Belgrade) and Professor Mirko Dordevic. These interviews about secularism in Serbia were conducted in summer of 2008 by Women in Black, Belgrade in Serbia. This is part of wider a series of video interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights being compiled at siawi.org

• Women speak on secularism . . . from Zagreb, Ana Maskalan
  27 April 2011, by siawi

  Ana Maskalan, Zagreb, Croatia - August 2007. This video is part of a series of interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights

  Duration: 16 minutes
  Produced by Marieme Helie Lucas for siawi.org

  Secularism is a women’s issue (www.siawi.org)
  coordinator, siawi.org: Marieme Helie Lucas

• Serbia: Manifest on Secularism
  19 November 2009, by Women in Black - Belgrade, Serbia

  The Coalition for a Secular State was initiated in beginning of 2006 by a group of nongovernmental organisations in response to the Law on Churches and Religious Communities.

• ex-Yugoslavia: a philosopher, a biologist and a mathematician speak
  12 October 2010, by siawi2
  on the erosion of secularism
  Seminar “threatening signs of fundamentalism – feminist and democratic answers”
  Lecture, Jastrebac Lino Veljak, philosopher
  Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb In the middle ages there was the principle of organic unity  (...)
• Branding Serbia: Thank you fascism !
  14 October 2010, by siawi2
  Nine years after the dramatic attempt of a gay pride parade in 2001, when a small group of activists was brutally attacked and persecuted in Belgrade (http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/010705serbia_gay_Tesanovic.html) a new parade was  (...)
• Branding Serbia: Hooligans and extreme right parties
  14 October 2010, by siawi2
  When my American friend came to Belgrade in January 2006 for the first time, he spotted numerous gang graffiti tags on the walls of the big dirty and beautiful capital. He was as keen to photograph them as he was the bridges, river scenes and  (...)
• Serbia: Attack on activists at the headquarters of Women in Black
  11 October 2010, by siawi2
  Author: Tanjug
  Belgrade - The peace group Women in Black announced today that last night around 1:30 am, two young men invaded the organization’s headquarters and with a hammer attacked men and women activists in the kitchen.
  This incident took  (...)
• Islamisation project of Bosnia’s Malaysia trained new elite
  8 October 2010, by siawi

  If Bosnia’s appropriation of Malaysian Islam continues, then its practice of public Islam could develop in several ways. Some 300 Bosnian elites who have graduated from Malaysian universities. After all, most were trained at the state-sponsored International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), whose prerogative is to “integrate Islamic revealed knowledge and values in all disciplines” so as to bring about “the restoration of the Ummah’s leading role in all branches of knowledge”.

• The former Yugoslavia: Mladic sentence
  1 December 2017, by siawi3

  Activists never stopped working on the background of the war-crimes, collecting facts, dates, facts, objects, especially the testimonies of survivors, the women who were widows, mothers, sisters. Many died while doing this labor, without ever receiving recognition or help. A women’s war tribunal for former Yugoslavia was established by Women in Black of Serbia, together with other NGO women’s groups from the region, to fill in the gaps of official justice and give a voice to the invisible civilian victims.

• International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in UN courtroom
  1 December 2017, by siawi3

  The 1992-95 war in Bosnia, in which 100,000 people died and 2.2 million were displaced, mainly pitted Bosnian Muslims against Bosnian Serbs, but also saw brutal fighting between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats after an initial alliance fell apart. Praljak is not the first defendant to die in ICTY custody at The Hague. The former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babić killed himself at the nearby Scheveningen detention centre in 2006. Another Croatian Serb, Slavko Dokmanović, was found hanging from the door of his cell in 1998.

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