VOTER referenda are an important tool to spur public participation in governance, says Martin Macko, executive director of Initiative Inakosť, a civic association advocating rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual people.
THE GRASSROOTS Alliance for Family (AZR) collected more than 400,000 signatures to put ballot questions that could ultimately amend the constitution to tighten the definition of family and ban same sex couples from adopting children.
THE ‘DON’T Become a Slave!’ campaign of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Slovakia helped to identify two victims of human trafficking between October and December 2014, the TASR newswire reported on January 20.
LAST YEAR was the safest year for Slovakia since it became independent in 1993, Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák told the press on January 20, referring to figures regarding the crime rate and solved crimes.
ONE OF the biggest proceedings regarding Slovak gangland started in Banská Bystrica on January 20. The Specialised Criminal Court began to solve six murders from the era of the gangland war in the 1990s at the main trial.
THE ROBERT Fico government okayed the construction of the zero bypass of Bratislava via the public-private partnership (PPP) project at its January 21 session.
ECONOMY Minister Pavol Pavlis is satisfied with the speed of works towards completion of the third and fourth units of the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant (EMO). He said so during his visit to the facility on January 20.
The Alliance for Family (AZR), a civic association that initiated the referendum on family to take place on February 7, reacted to the refusal of Slovak TV channels to broadcast their ads, deeming it illegal censorship.
The judge of court in Ružomberok in northern Slovakia, identified as Miriam P., who did not take into custody the man who in August 2014 murdered two people before killing himself, will face a proceeding before the disciplinary senate.
Former Bratislava mayoral candidate Milan Kňažko will seek an apology and compensation of €100,000 from W Press, the publisher of the Týždeň weekly, through a lawsuit, Kňažko confirmed January 20. The actor-professor turned politician is suing the magazine over two articles that were written befo
