Investigative stories
Last year, we asked women who had experienced obstetric violence to fill out a questionnaire on our website. Within one month, over a thousand women reached out to us. These are their stories.
In August last year, the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia issued conditions to Rio Tinto for the Jadar project, outlining what needed to be protected in the area and how this should be done. However, CINS obtained emails and other documents revealing that some experts opposed these conditions, arguing that they would not adequately protect the environment. The Acting Director ignored their objections and issued the conditions without making any changes, not even correcting typographical errors.
Family Care and Demography Minister Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski emphasizes in her biography that she obtained a degree in political science from the Faculty of Political Sciences. However, CINS can reveal that she never graduated from there.
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Ivana Milosavljević, a journalist from CINS, has been awarded the prize for promising young reporters at the European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy.
Analysis of almost 1,600 advertisements shows that flats in Belgrade are unaffordable for low-income earners and a major obstacle for people on an average wage.
More than 300 femicides have been recorded in Serbia over the last ten years, according to data published by the Autonomous Women’s Centre (AWC) in Belgrade. Most of the women were killed in their own homes, where they lived alone or with their partner.
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International Women’s Day – 8 March – is an occasion to discuss whether men and women in Serbia are equal – and to what extent. According to data, men are more likely to hold leadership positions and earn more.
The quality of air in Serbia has been the subject of discussion for years, and it is no secret that the country is the worst in Europe in terms of premature pollution-related deaths. Recent satellite data accessed by Deutsche Welle in cooperation with the European Data Journalism Network is revealing.
The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) monitors the development of coronavirus in Serbia and its impact on the lives of people. This is why, since the beginning of the epidemic, we publish official data on the number of people tested, confirmed new cases, hospitalized, people on respirators and deceased. Since we recorded a low number of new cases for couple of weeks in April 2022, from April 24, we will not publish data every day, but once a week.
More than 60 medical ventilators in Serbia are not operational, whereas the number of those that are is over 950, according to the Institute of Public Health Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut data CINS obtained yesterday. Relative to population size, the biggest quantities of this medical equipment, necessary during COVID-19 spread, are found in the South Banat and Belgrade districts, while the smallest quantities are in the Rasina, Jablanica and Mačva districts.
