Serbia marks another World Day of Social Justice with alarming data on poverty, lack of any sustainable policy aimed at improving social and economic rights of citizens and with no efficient system to protect the above rights. Despite the fact that according to the most recent...
Unconstitutional reduction of pensions, introduction of the "poverty tax", reduction of the social assistance for the most vulnerable citizens, growing housing crisis – more than 70% of households cannot afford to pay housing costs, are among the most dramatic indicators of citizens’ social rights since...
Manuals for community initiatives "Nobody without a home!" (Niko bez doma!) and "Who is working?" (Ko radi rad?) were presented yesterday by Ana Vilenica, the author, Milos Vuckovic, Radnik.rs portal editor, and Aleksa Petkovic, Joint Action Roof over Your Head (Krov nad glavom) and Don’t...
The labor rights and right to health care are among the most at risk rights in Serbia, while the two main causes of poverty are corruption and unemployment. Citizens generally do not understand public finance, budgeting, austerity measures and their consequences. These are some of the...
The manual "How do we collect data on human rights violations" is published. It was created under the project "Improved Advocacy of Civil Society Organizations for Economic and Social Rights of Migrants in Serbia", implemented by the A 11 Initiative in partnership with the Refugee...
On Wednesday, 11th of December 2019, the Special Report of the Protector of Citizens on the Implementation of the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma with Recommendations was presented. The report is based on research into the implementation of the Strategy, conducted between April and...
Organizations and individuals who submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court on the 2nd of December 2019 to review the constitutionality of amendments to the Criminal Code imposing a life sentence of imprisonment without parole have filed criminal charges against all persons who have threatened...
On the 7th of December organizations Lice Ulice, ADRA Serbia and A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights organized an event to support homeless people “Nobody should be without a roof over their heads, nobody should stay without support!”. The scope of this event...
On the 7th of December from 6:00pm to 12:00am on the plateau in front of the Terazije fountain organizations Lice Ulice, ADRA Serbia and A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights will organize an event to support homeless people “Nobody should be without...
Last week, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights discussed the level of threat to these rights in Serbia, as a group of NGOs and trade unions had the opportunity to present their reports and analyzes to representatives of this body. This is the...