Read Civil Rights Defenders’ report “The Case of Savamala” based on research findings of the reporting of daily newspapers about the case of illegal demolitions in Hercegovacka street in Belgrad...
Members of the media and civil society actors, including human rights defender Nataša Kandić, have recently been subjected to a wave of hate speech from Members of Parliament and right wing extremists...
The situation for media freedoms has been deteriorating dramatically over the last few years in Serbia. Smear campaigns targeting the independent media remains a large issue and seem to have reached a...
On Friday 7 July, prominent journalist Dragana Peco’s apartment was broken into while she was not at home. Her belongings had been moved around but no valuable items were stolen. In the recent past, s...
Civil Right Defenders is proud to announce the first School of LGBT+ Activism aimed at improving the position of the LGBT community through educating future human rights defenders so they can actively...
Last week, Alexander Vucic emerged as victor in Serbia’s presidential elections winning 54.9% of the vote. As Serbia’s Information Minister in the 1990’s he was instrumental in censoring media outlets...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognised the rulings of the Constitutional Court of Serbia regarding the banning of several Belgrade Pride Parades. However, it did not deem it n...
The Human Rights Defenders School, an initiative of Civil Rights Defenders has for a third year in succession opened its doors to young human rights lawyers and human rights defenders from across Serb...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the recent attack against several human rights defenders from the Youth Initiative of Human Rights (YIHR) of Serbia, a long time partner of Civil Rights Defenders and d...
In 2016 Boban Stojanovic and his partner Adam Puskar two leading figures of the Belgrade Pride Organisation and LGBT activists were forced into exile to Canada fearing for their lives and safety. Afte...
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