Serbia

By exposing violations of human rights and other difficult topics, Svetlana Lukic and her co-workers at Pescanik’s web site attract 200.000 visitors per month. Her uncompromising way to handle sensiti...

On 2 November 2011, Dragan Markovic Palma, Mayor of Jagodina and President of the parlamentary party United Serbia was convicted of hate speech. In a statement to the media in August, Markovic Palma s...

Personal characteristics such as national or ethnic origin, religious or political beliefs, medical condition, sexual orientation, sex and age are bases for daily discrimination in Serbia. Together wi...

On Friday the Serbian authorities decided to cancel the Belgrade Pride parade, which was planned to be held on Sunday. Belgrade’s Mayor refused to support the Pride and on Friday the Interior Ministry...

The National Security Council of the Serbian Parliament (Savet za nacionalnu bezbednost) has banned all public manifestations during the weekend, including Pride, on the grounds of national security. ...

Together with Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) in Serbia Civil Rights Defenders provide work to raise public awareness on the importance of confronting the past, by compiling and disseminating a comprehe...

Almost twice as many people are crammed in Serbian prisons as the buildings are designed for, Civil Rights Defenders and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia write in a new report. This l...

The trial to the minor B.J. from Jabuka for the murder of D.S. was resumed on 5 January 2011 after the Judicial Council presided by the Judge Stanka threw Milan Antonijevic, Director of YUCOM out of t...

The Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights YUCOM, Civil Rights Defenders and the Regional Centre for Minorities are concerned about the news of yet another postponement in the trial against the Roma bo...

A Pride parade was held today, for the first time ever in Serbia. This is a great step forward for the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) people. However, great efforts from aut...