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Serbian human rights watchdog says elderly were discriminated during pandemic

Posted 18/04/2020 by admin in Media

The Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (Yucom) said in a report released on Tuesday that Serbian citizens over the age of 65 were discriminated during the state of emergency imposed at the start of coronavirus pandemic. People over the age of 65 were banned from leaving their homes at the start of the state of…

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The state institutions should fight against the coronavirus, not the freedom of media

Posted 02/04/2020 by admin in Press releasses

We draw the attention of the domestic and international public to the unacceptable recent moves by the state authorities in Serbia during the state of emergency introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which undermine democracy, rule of law, basic human rights and especially freedom of media. We condemn the arrest of Nova.rs journalist Ana Lalić, to…

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Serbia’s COVID-19 Lockdown Takes an Authoritarian Turn

Posted 02/04/2020 by admin in Media

A musician in jail on flawed evidence. A journalist arrested for reporting on poor conditions in a local medical center. Hundreds of ordinary citizens charged for breaking arbitrarily enforced isolation measures. Serbia, already an illiberal state, has responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a slew of strict measures aimed at slowing the spread of the…

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“Civil Monitoring for a Stronger Judiciary: Phase 2”

Posted 01/04/2020 by admin in Projects

Project title: “Civil Monitoring for a Stronger Judiciary: Phase 2” Project duration: March 2020 – December 2020 Donor: Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) Project value: EUR 49,000.00 Facing a number of challenges in the field of human rights and the judiciary, Serbia continues to make great efforts to advance judicial reform, especially those outlined in the Action Plan for Chapter 23, necessary…

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PRESS RELEASE

Posted 16/03/2020 by admin in Press releasses

We would like to announce that, due to the situation with the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and the intensified measures of the Government of the Republic of Serbia regarding declaring a state of emergency, the Human Rights House with its member organizations unanimously decided that their employees will work from home in the upcoming period. For…

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Declaring a State of Emergency: What does it mean for people in Serbia?

Posted 16/03/2020 by admin in Media

The President of the Republic announced today the decision to declare a state of emergency, due to the danger of the coronavirus spreading. Along with the decision, he announced certain measures which would be introduced within the state of emergency. These measures entail closing of schools, kindergartens, faculites, as well as sports activities. A sentence…

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Defending the Defenders – In Solidarity for the Rights of All

Posted 09/03/2020 by admin in Projects

Project title: Defending the Defenders Project duration: January 2020 – December 2022 Donor: Delegation of the European Union (European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)) Partners: Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), People’s Parliament Leskovac (PPL) and Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) About the project: The main goal of the project is to strengthen the capacities…

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Support for legalization of buildings in Roma substandard settlements

Posted 05/03/2020 by admin in Projects

Project title: Support to legalization of buildings in Roma substandard settlements Project duration: October 2019 – October 2020 Donor: the program is funded by the European Union and implemented by the SCTM Project value: EUR 90,000.00 About the project: The quality of housing of the Roma population, as well as the legal uncertainty caused by the ownership of illegal housing,…

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Demanding answers: parents of missing Serbian babies protest new law

Posted 01/03/2020 by admin in Media

Serbian lawmakers have adopted a long-awaited law they say will shed light on the mystery of hundreds of missing babies more than 30 years ago, and offer compensation to parents where the fate of their child cannot be determined. In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of Serbian babies (some advocates say thousands) mysteriously vanished from…

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Parents slam Serbia bill in chilling ‘missing babies’ cases

Posted 01/03/2020 by admin in Media

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — For years, Mirjana Novokmet has tried to find out what happened to her first child back in 1978. Novokmet, only 19-years-old at the time, was told at a Belgrade clinic that her baby boy was stillborn. She wasn’t allowed to see him, and she has not been able to determine with…

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