Civil Rights Defenders supports the first Pride Parade in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica that will be held on 20 October 2013. This is an important test to see whether the authorities in Montenegro, a...
Vanja Ćalović, head of the organisation MANS that works on corruption issues in Montenegro, is the latest person to be included in the Natalia Project security system. In a culture where bribery is th...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the arrest of six activists from the organisation MANS (Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector), during a street performance in front of the Parliament of Montenegro. Ci...
Two years ago, an unfamiliar man attacked Zdravko Cimbaljevic. The hate crime led Zdravko to openly speak about his homosexuality in the press, thereby becoming Montenegro’s first open homosexual. Sin...
Civil Rights Defenders calls the government of Montenegro to refrain from attempting to undermine and discredit organisations, fulfilling an important function in a democracy. We are deeply concerned ...
Between 2010 and 2011 Olivera Lakic, Zeljk Ivanovic and other journalists at Vijesti received threats. In this letter to the Montenegro authorities we urge them to take immediate actions, and to ensur...
Civil Rights Defenders is concerned about the police interrogation of the Executive Director of MANS after a video of national security agents mingling with criminals was published on the organisation...
Baring in mind that freedom of expression and information in the media is an essential requirement of democracy, we will cooperate with our partners from UNEM to produce a report on limitations of fre...
A law on the prohibition on discrimination has been adopted in Montenegro, much because of the work of Civil Rights Defenders and our partners Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Center for Democrac...
On June 25 two human rights defenders in Montenegro where brought in for interrogation by the Police without legal basis for the action. Civil Rights Defenders believe that the action represents press...
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