• Balancing political participation and minority rights: the experience of the former Yugoslavia
  By Florian Bieber. The paper compares minority rights situation in the countries of Former Yugoslavia with the overall improvement in human rights protection in the last decade and a half. Minority rights remain largely undefined and international standards in this sphere - vague and evasive. In addition to protection from discrimination, linguistic and educational rights, the concept of minority rights should encompass political participation. The paper proceeds with a review of international legislation which endorses the above claim, and substantiates it with empirical evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia which demonstrates that political re-presentation alone is not sufficient to protect the rights of minorities
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• Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI)
  The work of ZEI contributes to the solution of the problems of European integration and Europe's role in a global context through future-orientated research work; sound policy advice; fruitful dialogue between researchers and decision-makers; and innovative concepts in postgraduate education and continuing education. Through its policy advice, the Center offers fruitful dialogue between researchers and decision-makers, and provides innovative concepts in postgraduate education and continuing education. The work of ZEI integrates legal, economic, social, cultural and political issues in an interdisciplinary context
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• Central Eurasia Project
  The Central Eurasia Project (CEP) provides information about human rights and the social and economic health of the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Some of its projects focus on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan as well. CEP uses grantmaking to international and indigenous NGOs to help build local capacity, bring international expertise to bear on the region, and promote cooperation between local activists and international civic movements in the fields of human rights, the environment, and transparent governance. Its ultimate goal is to strengthen civic leaders in the region and construct support networks within international structures and movements
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• East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders
  The Program supports international exchanges that bring together civil society actors to share ideas, information, knowledge, experiences, and expertise and to support practical actions that result from that networking. The program provides financial and human resources that enable civil society actors to build and strengthen resources and expertise; share best practices in social transformation; collaborate on innovative solutions to common challenges; and create and strengthen international advocacy coalitions. The program empowers marginalized and vulnerable sectors of society through promotion of cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, making information accessible and available to the public and encouraging public engagement civic dialogue
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• Economic & Business Development Program
  Economic and Business Development Program (EBDP) assists Soros Foundations in their work to promote the restructuring of transitional economies. EBDP serves as a catalyst for economic development, playing a crucial role in several areas---particularly microfinance, small business development, targeted economic policy initiatives, retraining of unemployed and laid-off military personnel, and entrepreneurship education. Using local experts and resources, EBDP seeks to build and strengthen the local institutions that provide access to capital, promote legal reform, andprovide support services for micro- and small-business operations
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• Education Support Program
  The Education Support Program (ESP) and its network partners support education reform in countries in transition, combining best practice and policy to strengthen open society values. ESP works to facilitate change in education and national policy development. Support is focused in South Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia.
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• EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP)
  The program monitors the development of selected human rights and rule of law issues in both the European Union and in its candidate and potential candidate countries. The program works with national experts and NGOs to compile reports that are designed to encourage broader participation in the process of articulating the EU's common democratic values as well as in ongoing monitoring of compliance with human rights standards throughout the union. Its focus is on access to education and employment for people with intellectual disabilities, and TV Across Europe: regulation, policy, and independence in 21 European countries
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• Four years of transition in Serbia
  By Begovic, Boris and Mijatovic, Bosko (eds.); Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies. The book evaluates the ground covered in Serbia's independence and identifies obstacles to be expected on the road to a liberal-democratic system, a market economy and the rule of law
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• Human Rights & Governance Grants Program
  The Program provides support to nongovernmental organizations operating in the fields of human rights and governance in Europe and Central Asia. The program assists supported organizations in their growth and institutionalization; in building networks among these groups; and in developing partnerships with other donors in this field. In the area of human rights, the program supports national and international advocacy organizations promoting political and civil rights at local, national and regional levels. Priority is given to projects that address the needs of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and those that have strong monitoring and legal advocacy components
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• Local Government & Public Service Reform Initiative
  The Initiative promotes effective democratic government in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. It focuses on supporting local government and public administration reform and decentralization; improving the administration of public services; assisting in the formulation of public policy; and developing a comprehensive regional policy center. In cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), LGI provides technical assistance on designing decentralization reform strategies in Central Asia and has contributed to the redesign of local government legislation in Macedonia and Croatia
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• Open Society Justice Initiative
  The Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of the Open Society Institute, promotes rights-based law reform, builds knowledge and strengthens legal capacity worldwide. Justice Initiative projects seek to shape law reform policy and achieve concrete results through hands-on technical assistance; litigation and legal advice; knowledge dissemination and network building; and counsel to donor institutions. The Justice Initiative works in the following thematic areas: national criminal justice reform; international justice; freedom of information and expression; anticorruption; equality and citizenship. Its offices are in New York, Budapest, and Abuja
  The Open Society Justice Initiative pursues law reform activities grounded in theprotection of human rights, and contributes to the development of legal capacity for opensocieties worldwide.
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• The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies
  The area of research specialization of the Institute includes East-West relations after the end of the Cold War (new opportunities and risks; building of democracy and market economy), Transatlantic relations: rethinking and redefining the relationship at the political, economic, and strategic levels; and the European integration process, with a focus on the single market, the Maastricht and the Amsterdam treaties, the process of deepening and widening, flexible integration, CFSP, the Schengen process, EMU.
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• "Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform", Jonathan Weiler, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. 165 pp.
  On the basis of the observation that political change in Russia has coincided with worsening physical security for many citizens, Weiler asks why Western observers have generally spoken of human rights abuses there only in relation to atrocities committed by soldiers in Chechnya and very occasional persecution of environmentalists and scientists for allegedly sharing classified information. He looks specifically at the conditions of prisoners, both those in overcrowded pre-trial detention and those already in labor camps, at attitudes toward domestic violence, and at treatment of draftees and others at the mercy of faltering state institutions.
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• "Social dialogue, tripartism and social partnership development in the South East European countries", Djuric, Dragan
  In transition countries, up until now researchers focused more on the area of industrial relations and social dialogue in the countries - candidates for the accession to the European Union, among other things because social dialogue in them is more developed. The main social partners participating in social dialogue became clearly defined, while tripartite bodies have been institutionalized with the main role to contribute through active dialogue between the social partners and the government to reducing the cost of transition changes and to the creation of social consensus in the implementation of the necessary economic and social reforms.
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• "The EU, human rights, and the Russo-Chechen conflict", Tuomas Forsberg & Graeme P. Herd. Political Science Quarterly 120.3 (Fa
  The role of the Russo-Chechen conflict in shaping the European Union's relations with Russia is of interest to analysts and policy makers. An analysis of the EU's rhetorical and substantive responses to human rights abuses in Chechnya will reveal the limitations of human rights as a central organizing principle within the CFSP when it is applied to its external relations. Article argues that over the last decade, the EU has sacrificed a coherent and systematic advancement of its normative agenda in favor of strengthening its relations with the Russian Federation, a key strategic partner
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• "The union of Serbia and Montenegro", Mijatovic, Bosko and Popovic, Dragoljub and Samardzic, Slobodan
  The paper is a proposal for the constitutional reconstruction ofSerbiaandMontenegro. It starts with overview of the present constitution, claiming its invalidity, and defines Basic principles of the state union ofSerbiaandMontenegrowith overview of fundamental rights and freedoms, distribution of authority between the federal units and the federation, economic system and state institutions
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• Anti-corruption in transition. A contribution to the policy debate
  By the World Bank. Along with the increasing understanding in the world of the horrific impact of corruption on economic development and social stability, there has also been a radical increase in the demand for practical strategies for elimination of corruption. This report uncovers various types of corruption, identifies this problem and compares its expressions in the various transition period countries. That is followed by conclusions regarding the development of various anti-corruption strategies that would take into account the differences in the region thereby ensuring the effectiveness of reforms
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• Coalition building and monitoring in transition countries
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. Once an "exotic" issue in the diplomatic exchanges, corruption became a constant part of the agenda of the international community in the early and mid-1990s. In recent years, corruption has evolved into one of the priority problems of transition societies. At the same time different approaches have been elaborated both to counter corruption and to take its dimensions, survey the background factors, and the multitude of meanings it has been attributed with by public opinion. In this respect the work of Coalition 2000, which combines civil society pro-active anticorruption measures and monitoring instruments, has emerged as a unique advocacy and research tool leading to practical results
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• Combating corruption at the customs administration
  By Boris Begovic and Bosko Mijatovic. The authors look at the causes of corruption at the customs in Serbia and offers suggestions on a wide range of anti corruption measures with the aim of reducing it to a minimum. They discuss the mechanics of customs corruption and outlines the various reasons and factors that lead customs officials, border guards and importers to partake in this escalating crime
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• Corruption and trafficking: monitoring and prevention
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. The paper analyzes the phenomenon of illicit trafficking growth, as one of the most important sources of local "gray economy" throughout the 90ies, and and to identify adequate monitoring and counteraction measures to fight with it
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