Serbia

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...

A truth commission in the Western Balkans would contribute to the democratisation process and to strengthening the rule of law. This was the expressed opinion of the participants at a recently arrange...

The authors of the investigative TV show ‘Insider’, Brankica Stankovic and her team, have received new threats after the last episode was aired on TV B92 on the 3rd of December. The authors were inves...

The Serbian ministry of Interior has promised to protect the participants of the Pride parade, which takes place on 20 September in Belgrade. We will be there to see how much force the authorities put...

On Sunday, 20 September, a Pride parade will be arranged in Belgrad. During the last attempt in 2001, peaceful demonstrators were attacked and beaten by nationalist groups and football hooligans. The ...

Biljana Srbljanovic, renowned Serbian writer and human rights defender, has been accused of disorderly conduct for her participation at the promotion of Pescanik radio show in Pancevo, Serbia. However...

An all inclusive law against discrimination was finally adopted by the Serbian Parliament on Thursday March 26. It is a great result for the Swedish Helsinki Committee and for all the local NGOs that ...