Anti-social behaviour

Greece's Health Ministry is preparing a program aimed at developing a model for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, Stelios Stylianidis, psychiatrist-psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of social psychiatry at Athens' Panteion University, told Kathimerini. 

New Minister of Citizen Protection Notis Mitarakis vowed to "deal with phenomena of racist violence and protect vulnerable social groups," during the handover ceremony on Tuesday from the acting minister Charalambos Lalousis.

Complaints have been pouring in about the loud music emanating from tourist boats sailing in the Bosphorus until late at night, with numerous residents living around the iconic strait expressing their grievances regarding the noise.

According to the caretaker Minister of Justice Ivan Demerdzhiev, the criticism that the green certificate is discriminatory and violates the rights of people who do not want to be vaccinated is unfounded.

This was announced by the Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue, Gordana omi, as a guest on the morning program of TV Prva.
She said on TV Prva that a dialogue on the law on same-sex partnership will be opened in December and that a working group is being formed, and that the two laws could be in the parliamentary procedure before the spring of next year.

Town mayors and mid-level politicians are still getting away with hate speech and discrimination against Roma communities in three Balkan EU states, despite the bloc's commitment to minority rights.

Serbian police on Monday interrogated two participants at last weekend's anti-government protests for allegedly carrying a makeshift gallows during the rally in Belgrade on February 2.

Attacks on journalists, discrimination against minorities, poor protection of refugees and lack of political will to prosecute war crimes remain problems in most Balkan countries in 2017, Human Rights Watch's World Report 2018 said.

The marginalization of "and societal intolerance towards the Romani minority remained the country's most pressing human rights problem", alongside anti-refugee sentiment and deteriorating media environment, the US Department of State says.

The US State Department 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - presented to Congress on Wednesday - highlighted corruption, the rule of law and discrimination as the main problems in the Balkans.

"In the arena of human rights, every government has the ability to improve," Secretary of State John Kerry said, presenting the report.