Pride parade

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic said on Wednesday in comment to a report on LGBT rights that integration of minority groups into society was a two-way process.

BELGRADE - A total of seven physical and 12 verbal assaults on members of the LGBT community happened in Serbia in 2014, police intervened and filed 10 reports to the competent prosecutor's office, Serbian Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday.

During the same period, 66 threats against the LGBT community were made over social networks, he said.

Serbia's High Prosecution Office on Monday brought charges against eight members of the Gendarmerie special police unit, for attacking an army officers in the performance of theirduties, abuse and torture and abuse of office.

Dacic meets with LGBT representatives, apologizes

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has met with representatives of the LGBT population over the weekend and apologized for a statement he made in 2013.

That statement was described by Commissioner for Protection of Equality Nevena Petrusic as upsetting and humiliating.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic apologized to representatives of the LGBT population for his earlier statement which Commissioner for Protection of Equality Nevena Petrusic described as upsetting and humiliating.

Committee finds military agency did not breach law

BELGRADE -- The Committee for Security Services Oversight of the Serbian Parliament has concluded that the Military Security Agency (VBA) had not violated the law.

Ombudsman reveals he is receiving threats

BELGRADE -- The ruling SNS party has called on the relevant authorities to prevent any threats to the safety of Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic, "if he is truly in danger."

Montenegro pride parade is a step toward human rights

Fostering human rights is one of the key requirements for candidate countries to join the EU.

EU officials and experts praised the recent gay pride parade in Montenegro as a positive step toward boosting human rights in the country.

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Yiannis Boutaris, Thessaloniki’s outspoken mayor, has posed half-naked for a photo shoot in the context of an AIDS awareness campaign.

The pictures of Boutaris and another 31 public figures are to be published on Sunday in Adore magazine, which is published with the city’s Makedonia newspaper.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics has become the first high-ranking politician in his country and the Baltic states to come out publicly as being gay, in a series of tweets.
      
"I proudly announce I am gay... Good luck all of you," he said late Thursday in a tweet that has since gone viral.