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21/11/2014

21/11/2014 – HRA APPROVES THE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO REJECT THE REQUEST FOR CRIMINALIZATION OF DEFAMATION AND INSULT

Human Rights Action (HRA) welcomes the Government’s decision not to support the proposal for reintroducing criminal offences of Defamation and Insult. This is a responsible step, […]
20/11/2014

20/11/2014 – FIRST MEETING OF MEDIA SELF-REGULATORY BODIES DEDICATED TO ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR COOPERATION AND BALANCED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CODE OF JOURNALISTS OF MONTENEGRO

The first out of four planned meetings of representatives of media self-regulatory bodies, devoted to cooperation of self-regulatory bodies for the purpose of uniform application of […]
05/11/2014

5/11/2014 – HRA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SPEAKS TODAY BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

HRA executive director, Ms Tea Gorjanc Prelević, will speak before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights in Brussels, at a hearing on Human Rights in […]
01/11/2014

1/11/2014 – REGARDING THE BEGINNING OF PROJECT “SUPPORT FOR UNDERSTANDING JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION”

Human Rights Action (HRA), will be implementing project „Support for Understanding Journalistic Ethics and Freedom of Expression“, with the support of the US Embassy in Podgorica, […]
31/10/2014

31/10/2014 – HRA RESISTS PROPOSAL TO REINTRODUCE CRIMINAL OFFENCES DEFAMATION AND INSULT

HRA considers the proposal to reintroduce Defamation and Insult as criminal offences irrational, considering the fact that the current Montenegrin civil law provides sufficient instruments for […]
29/10/2014

28/10/2014 – PRESS RELEASE REGARDING CONTINUATION OF PUBLISHING OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN DAILY INFORMER

Daily Informer continued on 27 October and 28 October 2014 to publish pornographic material with the aim of discrediting the Executive director of the Network for […]
24/10/2014

24/10/2014 – “Judicial Reform Monitoring Project” presented today

Human Rights Action (HRA) and Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) presented today at a press conference the project “Judicial Reform Monitoring Project”. This project is […]
22/10/2014

22/10/2014 – LETTER TO THE SUPREME STATE PROSECUTOR REGARDING 12 CASES OF INEFFICIENT INVESTIGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

HRA sent the letter on 21 October to the Supreme State Prosecutor Ivica Stanković involving 12 cases of human rights violations, which were neither investigated nor […]
17/10/2014

17/10/2014 – RESIST PROVOCATION OF HATERED AND SEVERELY PUNISH ITS INCITEMENT

All of us who remember the victims of the war waged on the territory of former Yugoslavia during the nineties should be concerned over the recent […]
14/10/2014

14/10/2014 – NGOs SUBMITTED AN ALTERNATIVE REPORT TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Human Rights Action (HRA) submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights an alternative report of 14 Montenegrin NGOs on implementation of the International […]
14/10/2014

14/10/2014 – Montenegro before the UN Human Rights Committee

The 112th session of the UN Human Rights Committee, at which the report of Montenegro on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
12/10/2014

12/10/2014 TORTURE OF ALEKSANDAR PEJANOVIĆ MUST NOT REMAIN UNPUNISHED

Aleksandar Pejanović, our fellow citizen, was brutally beaten twice by, according to information from the criminal trial, members of the special intervention police unit while in […]