Women in Serbia share their stories about helping refugees as many recall being displaced themselves.“When I first started working as an interpreter at the Asylum Info Centre, it was just a job for me. My native language is Urdu, which many Afghans happen to understand. I was never involved in humanitarian work. In Pakistan, my home country, I taught English literature.
The United Nations’ refugee agency said on Tuesday proposals to send back refugees en masse from the European Union to Turkey would contravene their right to protection under European and international law.
To European Leaders:
As national and international organizations working along the Western Balkan migration route in Greece, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, we strongly condemn the latest discriminatory and dangerous measures adopted by European countries as part of a broader package of deterrence policies intended to stem the flow of vulnerable people seeking safety.
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Nevena Nikolić, the representative of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, presented the activities and results of the Centre’s project called “Role of education in preventing child marriage of Roma girls” at the “Early, forced and child marriages” conference. (more…)
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Roma Women’s Centre – BIBIJA, YUROM Centre Niš, and Foundation Ana and Vlade Divac will organise a conference called Early, forced and child marriages in Serbia: towards mapping of the problem and possible solutions that will take place at 11 a.m. on February 23, 2016 in hotel Metropol (Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 69, http://www.metropolpalace.com/) in Belgrade. (more…)
The Human Rights House strongly condemns the smear campaign two pro-governmental media outlets, Informer and Pink, have been staging against the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina and its president, Dinko Gruhonjic. The methods used against Gruhonjic have all the elements of fascism and racism: his ethnic origin is being questioned, while he is being called by a name the Nazi site Stormfront fabricated and “branded” several years ago. The Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina is one of few niches of free and critical thought in Serbia, as well as an institution renown for its struggle against extremism, hatred and intolerance. (more…)
