Former director of the Culture Center in Novi Sad and ex Third Serbia activist Andrej Fajgelj issued a death threat to ombudsman Sasa Jankovic via Twitter.
In his own words, he did this in response to the ombudsman’s opinion that parents who refuse to vaccinate their children should be have their children taken away from them.
An attack on the premises of the House for Human Rights and Democracy (KLJPD) occurred overnight in downtown Belgrade, the organization said on Facebook.
Photographs showing a window broken during the incident was also posted on Friday.
The police investigated the scene, while KLJPD announced they expect the attackers to be foun
PTF is working to strengthen CSOs advancing the rule-of-law through the Metzger Initiative. In Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, over 80 professional volunteers were trained to monitor criminal corruption proceedings. The increased oversight has encouraged more substantive trials.
Legal experts say trend towards passing laws in urgent procedure is stifling democratic debate and lowering the quality of legislation
A marked rise in the number of laws passed in urgent procedure in Serbia and without debate – often under the excuse of EU membership talks – is raising questions about transparency and the quality of legislation.
Milan Antonijevic, from YUCOM – Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, told BIRN that the number of laws passed in urgent procedures had jumped again in this parliamentary session.
Interview – Milan Antonijević
Director of the Lawyer’s Commitee for Human Rights, Yucom
The EC Progress Report will be balanced and will deal with the situation in the media and among the defenders of human rights. Journalists have been attacked in the past and that must be the subject od an investigation
The Triple A partners and several former pilot projects have released a joint statement on the ongoing refugee/migrant crisis:
We, the implementing partners of the project Triple A for citizens, Access to information, advice and Active help, and members of the Triple A network, are deeply concerned by the lack of a common European approach to the current migrant crisis in Europe and by the threat this poses to such founding principles of the Union as solidarity, freedom of movement and protection of human rights.
After UNESCO decided to look at Kosovo’s membership application – a move that infuriated Serbian officials – experts said that obstacles remain on Pristina’s path to joining the UN’s cultural body.
Civil rights groups have welcomed the Serbian government’s decision to ban a planned right-wing rally against migrants set for Monday.
Nebojsa Stefanovic, Serbia’s Interior Minister, on Wednesday banned protests against refugees in Serbia after two far-right organisations, Nasi [Ours] and Srbski obraz, announced a rally next Monday.
The groups denounced what they called “an EU plan” to settle 400,000 migrants in Serbia.
Roma families who fled the Kosovo war in 1999 are waiting nervously for a European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether the Belgrade authorities can legally evict them from their informal settlements
Seljatin Burgazi looks worried and gloomy as we meet in the Belgrade neighbourhood of Grmec, where he’s been living since the NATO bombing in 1999, when he fled the village of Velika Slatina near Pristina in Kosovo.
The task I received from “Danas” to explain in 7.000 characters Chapter 23, the negotiations with the EU that will follow it as well as the current state of the so called Action plan that is being drawn up in Serbia seems impossible, but I will try anyway.
The negotiations with the European Union are being opened via special chapters which clearly state the aquis communautaire (binding regulations) at the EU level which Serbia will have to adopt.