Civil Rights Defenders demands urgent action from the police, prosecutors and courts regarding the threats directed to of one of Serbia’s leading LGBT activists, Boban Stojanovic. Civil Rights Defende...
Late Friday evening, the Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic announced that the Belgrade Pride parade was banned. The reason being that “nobody could guarantee a safe holding of the parade,” while ther...
The Pride Festival in Belgrade started this weekend. For ten days there will be full focus on LGBT people’s situation and rights. The program includes panel discussions, music and a long-awaited Pride...
Belgrade Pride Festival takes place between 21 and 29 September. The festival has been making headlines since 2010, when police and thousands of homophobic protesters clashed in brutal scenes on the s...
The Serbian security services breached Article 10 of the European Convention, when they rejected to reveal information about the number of persons who were subjected to electronic surveillance in 2005...
Civil Rights Defenders’ partner Youth Initiative for Human Rights was one of the recipients of the Annual Award for fighting discrimination, handed out by the Coalition Against Discrimination in Serbi...
Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Serbia, stating that the ban on the Pride Parade 2011 was a violation of the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of a...
Nataša Kandić, founder of Humanitarian Law Center, Serbia, is the recipient of the 2013 “Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award”. Nataša Kandić receives the award for her “persistent and fearle...
Thirteen years after the democratic changes, a majority of the citizens of Serbia still do not believe that human rights defenders are working in the best interests of the country. Deep-rooted prejudi...
The Roma population in Serbia is continuously exposed to severe discrimination and persistently threatened or actually victimized by acts of forced eviction from their homes. To raise the awareness of...
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