Social Issues

At the trial for wartime crimes at Bosnian Serb detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a forensics expert said exhumed victims’ remains showed signs of violent assaults.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has staged a pre-election rally in Belgrade where the party's leader Aleksandar Vucic said that the Ukrainian scenario will never happen in Serbia, telling those who wish it to occur that before them is a rampart they will never be able to jump over.

LESKOVAC - The citizens will be deciding between only two real political options in the early parliamentary elections on Sunday - the right-wing programme of the Serbian Progressive Party and the left-wing programme of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia and United Serbia , SPS leader Ivica Dacic has said.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Protector of Citizens Sasa Jankovic met on Tuesday with the representatives of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and expressed his support to the organization's efforts aimed at combating discrimination against LGBT persons and strongly condemned the death threats against its activists.

Serbia beginning effort to reduce discrimination

A recent survey shows that discrimination is widespread, and even tolerated, in Serbia.

Protection for Equality Commissioner Nevena Petrusic (centre) holds a press conference on the survey results on February 28th. [Vesna Andic/RFE/RL]

BELGRADE - The Serbian legislation has mostly been harmonized with the EU acquis, as shown by the first screenings concerning Chapters 2 and 19 which deal with the freedom of movement for workers, social policy and employment, with some fine adjustments pending, heads of the groups tasked with leading the negotiations on these chapters told reporters on Monday.

BELGRADE - In the context of reforms and European integration process, improving the position of women in Serbia is closely connected with the necessity to use all development potential of society, women involved in Serbia’s European integration process told Tanjug on the occasion of the 2014 International Women's Day.

BELGRADE - President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sonja Liht said on the occasion of the 2014 International Women’s Day that women in Serbian need to excercise their voting rights in the upcoming elections, because it is the first step towards winning all other rights.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Friday he hoped the coming snap parliamentary poll would be conducted better than the last one, because irregularities with the electoral roll had been cleared.

The government was pondering on Friday how to correct a mistake in Parliament that saw a bill passed on Thursday even though it had not received the majority of the votes.