Welcome
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Regional Office in Belgrade, which, along with the offices in Sarajevo and Zagreb, is responsible for the Foundation's work in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosova and Montenegro. We are particularly glad to introduce the new layout of our web-site, which will enable us to present our operation in a more attractive and clearly arranged manner.
In our topic sections (democracy, ecology and international politics) we write about events organised independently or in cooperation with other organisations. We also provide information from various publications on these subjects we consider important. And we will regularly offer texts in Serbian translation for download.
The site contains information in Serbian and English. We hope you will find here interesting material to read and useful information on important political and social topics.

Please, feel welcome to participate in our events and do not hesitate to contact us.

Worth reading

Letters from Serbia No.1

In a monthly "Letter from Serbia" the writer László Végel from Novi Sad will communicate his observations and reflections on the social, cultural and political development in Serbia through our foundation's web-site. His letters are written "from Serbia" to an audience outside the country, but they might be read as well as "Letters to Serbia", written by one of the citizens of this country, one of Serbia's most acute oberservers and most distinguished intellectuals. more»

Democracy

Final Statement concerning Bejing

March 8, 2010 - The Fourth World Conference on Women produced the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a comprehensive women’s human rights paradigm that envisioned the transformation of power relations. This was a global vision of social justice, equality, development and peace. Fifteen years later, the BPfA would seem to be considered by governments as technical instrument, and its substance has been depoliticised and diluted. The key implementation strategy of gender mainstreaming has lost its critical perspective and transformative purpose in terms of power relations and inequalities. more»

Events hbf Belgrade

WORKSHOP

February 16, 2010 - The Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights and The Heinrich Böll Foundation, with sponsorship from the European Commission, invite you to a workshop:

Inclusion of Citizens in Social and Political Life through Advocating the Right to Petition and Submit Recommendations

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Worth reading

Climate and Energy

Magazin 2/09

Green New Deal

Miscellaneous gleanings on the flight back from Washington: Financial Times writer Paul Kennedy describes the shape of "our new post-excess neocapitalist political economy." According to Kennedy, we will experience "a higher-than-welcome degree of government interference in 'the market,' somewhat larger taxes … more»

Study

Erene

 - Climate protection and a secure energy supply both are questions of our future. The European Union must set itself ambitious goals if it wants to maintain its political dynamic. A feasibility study by Michaele Schreyer and Lutz Mez in collaboration with David Jacobs. more»