Human rights

This week, the Turkish Parliament passed a series of laws, including changes about internet privacy.

BELGRADE - Germany's Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy Christoph Straesser noted on Friday that it is important for Serbia, in the context of EU integration, that a pride parade be held, as the country would thus show that it protects and respects the rights of all citizens, including the LGBT population.

Journalists cautioned against violating privacy

BELGRADE -- It is unacceptable that the media are publishing data on crime suspects and their victims, Rodoljub Šabić has said.

The commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection on Friday once again warned against the practice.

A total of 2,593 people, including civilians as well as Ukrainian and separatist combatants, have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since it erupted in mid-April, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Aug. 29.
 

Expanding the network of local human rights monitors and developing the instruments aimed at preventing and combating all forms of discrimination against Roma people are the main objectives of the project "Enforcing Human Rights Standards for the Roma in Romania", launched on Wednesday by the Roma People's Centre for Social Intervention and Studies - Romani CRISS.

A former member of Golden Dawn who will also testify in the trial of party MPs and supporters has told a US-based rights group that the police were under orders not to trouble neo-Nazis.

NGO: Victims must achieve right to compensation

BELGRADE -- The government should incorporate measures to realize the rights of victims of human rights violations committed in the 1990s in its EU membership negotiations.

This is a recommendation of the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP).

The British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is engaged to George Clooney, on Aug. 11 pulled out of an appointment to serve on a U.N. commission on possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza.
     

Serbia abolished death penalty, explains minister

BELGRADE -- If found guilty, the suspect in the murder of a 15-year-old girl could be sent to prison for 30 to 40 years, as Serbia has abolished the death penalty.

EC report to be "mostly positive, with criticism"

BELGRADE -- A new report by the European Commission will be mostly positive, but in at least three areas Serbia will not get a passing grade, writes a daily.