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FROM PROHIBITION TO FASTING
Croatia has decided to completely ban mobile phones in schools. It seems that almost everyone supports this prohibition, which will be voted on in...
SCHOOLS WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES
The City of Zagreb recently proposed that schools ban the use of mobile phones during school hours. More and more schools in Serbia are...
IS THE CIRCLE OF DEPRESSION WIDENING?
According to the results of a 2025 survey, 20.4% of upper primary and secondary school students in Serbia show symptoms of at least one...
POWER IS THE STRONGEST DRUG
Soldiers are marching in parades across the region. Politicians in Serbia are once again speaking of threats to the nation, in Croatia, they are...
AS VIOLENCE RISES, WHAT LIES AHEAD?
The surge of violence, first of all in Serbia, then the threats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the resurgence of Ustasha glorification in Croatia,...
PEER VIOLENCE IS THE RESULT OF IMITATION
In Toponica, near Požarevac, an eleven-year-old girl was raped by her peers! On a school playground in Zagreb, six elementary school boys, all under...
Themes
MY MOTIVE IS INJUSTICE
The 11th parliamentary elections will be held in North Macedonia on May 8th when 123 representatives will be elected according to the proportional representation...
ALEKSANDRE, BELGRADE IS NOT AFRAID OF YOU
When can we truly say that a city is big? Does this bigness reflect in the number of people living in it, perhaps its...
“FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IS AN ELEMENTARY RIGHT, NOT A NEW YEAR’S...
EU and Kosovo flags close to one another/ Illustration purposes/
On December 31st, Kosovo celebrated not only the arrival of the year 2024 but...
HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: HIGH ON MYTHS, LOW ON FACTS
The cover of the book of the same title, written by Barbara Jelavich used for illustration purposes only
How is history written in Kosovo? What...
THREE YOUNG WOMEN BREAK STEREOTYPES
In the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) young women are breaking out of traditional frameworks and successfully building their professional careers....
NO MORE PROMISES, WE’VE HIT ROCK BOTTOM
2024 is an election year for North Macedonia. Macedonian citizens will vote in the spring for the 11th time in the parliamentary and the...
North Macedonia
VOLUNTEERING IS HELPING AND GROWING UP
Many of us prefer to sit at home, browsing the internet. A minority decides to volunteer, to help out, to get to know other...
A MESSAGE TO THE NEW RECTOR
The largest and oldest university in North Macedonia, "St. Cyril and Methodius" (UKIM) consists of 28 faculties and institutes with over 20 thousand students...
Serbia
FROM IMAGINATION TO POSSIBILITY
Despite mounting pressure from the student movement demanding early elections, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is steering the country further toward open autocracy. Erosion of...
WE ARE NOT SCARED: STUDENTS VS. VUCIC
Every day, Belgrade wakes to the sound of protest. Streets once alive with music and buzzing with movement now resonate with chants of defiance...
Monte Negro
STUDENTS AND CITIZENS PROTEST – THE AUTHORITIES IGNORE THEM
In Cetinje, Montenegro, the beginning of the year was marked by crime. 13 people were killed. Since January 5, the informal student group "Where...
PATRIARCHY IS NOT DEAD – YET
In 1919, the Center for Women's Rights in Montenegro founded the Little School for Breaking the Patriarchy. The idea stemmed from the experiences of...
BiH
VICTORY OVER CLICKS
In a time when so much has shifted to screens, and skills are increasingly learned through clicks, a small group of young artisans has...
WHAT IS OUR RACISM? Bosnia and Herzegovina
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USA protests over racial discrimination are being followed both in the region, as well as in the world. Luckily, some say, that we in...
Out of Borders
YOUTH: THE CHANGES ARE NEEDED, BUT…
The pandemic affected many lives this past year. Thus, "PERSPECTIVE", like many others, could not travel where they wanted. However, we managed to get...
SILENCE SUPPORTS CRIME
Last week, Montenegrin youth took on the squares to protest violence against an eight-year-old girl. Violence has been visible for a long time. In...
MODERATORS
“Great crew is working on the Perspective project. I think they chose well when it comes to topics and questions, topics that are either muted, or false answers are offered. Perspective is showing the true state of mind of young people in the region. The young are frightened. They are enraged because they want to be different, but their environment is condemns different.”
Edo Maajka
