The project aims to promote and support the wider application of alternative sanctions and restorative justice measures in Montenegro, by encouraging and empowering civil society organizations to participate more actively in improving the protection of human rights in the criminal…
Over half of Montenegro’s population are women, all while their participation in political and public life is almost negligible. The regressive trend of participation of women and persons of different gender and gender identities, as well as marginalized persons in…
The progress made in the field of protection of minority peoples and other minority national communities in the normative sense has been recognized through a number of national and international reports, as well as through CEDEM conducted research. Despite the…
Montenegro faces social and political challenges and, for the first time, requires democratic roadmaps. In order to contribute in the strengthening of the accountability, transparency, and consolidation of democratic institutions, CEDEM has developed a project “Vox populi – Implementation of…
In recent years, Montenegro has faced a visible trend of an increasing presence of hate speech. During 2020, freedom of expression was threatened by the authorities in connection with the COVID-19 crisis and election campaigns. Namely, a number of steps…
Socio-political environment, growing distrust in institutions, and lack of concrete results, or rather, lack of revisions of public policy documents, as well as the lack of citizen participation in the creation of said documents are just some of the reasons…
Almost half of the citizens believe that Montenegro is going in the wrong way and that early parliamentary elections should be scheduled. These are the results of this year’s second survey “Political Public Opinion of Montenegro” conducted by the Center…
At today’s press conference, CEDEM presented the results of the Survey on Political Public Opinion in Montenegro, conducted in the period from 1st to 11th of December, 2021 on a sample of 1,022 respondents. You can download the results here.…
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM) is implementing the project “Disinformation – Fact CheckMate!” with the support of the NATO Public Diplomacy Division. Within this project, a three-day activity “Fact checkers academy: Volume 2” was held, which was…

