Serbia

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...

On Sunday 10 October a new attempt will be made to carry out a Pride parade in Belgrade. Robert Hårdh, Executive Director of Civil Rights Defenders, will be in the Serbian capital to participate in th...

Serbian authorities are still not doing enough toward ensuring implementation of recently enacted laws and enabling unobstructed operation of independent institutions, according to findings in a repor...

Our partner Youth Initiative for Human Rights received a threatening letter, calling them pro-fascist and saying that everyone who took part in a march marking the 15th anniversary of murdered youth i...

Nine people from our partner organisation, Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) in Serbia, were arrested by the police for having sprayed “That tough foreign word genocide” in front of the Serbian...