Discrimination

The three-day WARM Festival in Sarajevo is exhibiting photographs and screening films about wars throughout the world and the issues of ethnic divisions, the refugee crisis and discrimination against minorities.

Bulgaria provides freedom of religion and religious groups can confess their faith without registering. This conclusion is contained in the annual report of the State Department for Religious Freedoms around the world, BBC reports.

Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores on May 29 to train around 175,000 employees against racial bias, an unprecedented public operation that highlights America's ongoing struggle with discrimination.

Almost a quarter-of-a-million girls younger than five die in India every year due to neglect resulting from society's preference for sons, a gender discrimination study found on May 15.

Hate speech and racist rhetoric has been increasing in Croatia, mainly targeting Serbs, LGBT people and Roma, warned the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) expressed on Monday its abhorrence over the vandalism of tombstones at the Jewish cemetery of Athens, calling on Greek society to condemn the action.

According to police, around 10 marble tombstones were smashed at the 3rd Cemetery of Nikaia in Athens on Friday.

Greek political parties have expressed their disgust over the desecration of Jewish graves at the 3rd Cemetery of Nikaia in Athens on Friday.

"Anti-Semitism, and all forms of racism, has no place in Greek society," a statement by ruling Syriza read.

"We will not allow the diffusion of racial hatred by those who feel nostalgia for Hitler," it added.

An Athens misdemeanors court on Wednesday cleared Greek author Soti Triantafyllou on charges of violating anti-racism laws in her writing.

The case went to trial after the Greek-Helsinki Monitor human rights group took legal action against the author, accusing her of using racist language in articles.

Romania's anti-discrimination council on Wednesday fined the popular satirical publication Times New Romanian for an article insulting Social Democrat leader Liviu Dragnea's partner who had accompanied the politician to a Social Democrat Party congress in March.

The German publication Deutsche Welle has produced a documentary in Bulgaria about one of the older traditions of the Roma minority with regards to marriage.

The documentary follows a Kalaidzhi family as they attempt to find a husband for their daughter, and it explores the differences between the young Roma and the older generations.