In Belgrade, March 17, 2020, A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights calls on Government of the Republic of Serbia to take immediate action to protect the most vulnerable citizens during the emergency caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (corona virus) pandemic. Although it is clear...
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...
On the occasion of the World Homeless Day, the A 11 Initiative reminds about numerous violations of the right to adequate housing that lead many citizens to homelessness and continue to jeopardize their guaranteed rights. Inadequately solved problems faced by the most vulnerable groups – Roma,...
A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights held a workshop titled „Refugee integration in Serbia through improved access to social and economic Rights“ on 2nd of September, 2019. The workshop was organized as part of the project "Advocacy efforts of CSOs supported with...
Representatives of the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights visited at the end of July an informal collective center in Voždovac ring road in Belgrade. Therein, they found families that had been living without electricity for more than four months. The Akord...
After collecting additional evidences of discrimination, the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights filed a complaint with the Commissioner for Protection of Equality against taxi associations that refused to transport Roma women and men in Niš. A few weeks ago, the media published...
On the occasion of reviewing the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Republic of Serbia, the A 11 Initiative together with civil society organizations and unions submitted the report on the implementation of rights under the Covenant to...
A year after concluding the public debate on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Social Protection, the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Issues organized a consultative meeting and made available a new version of the draft law to the public....
Within the project „Improvement of the local integration of internally displaced persons via improvement of access to economic and social rights“, supported by the UNHCR, A 11 Initiative has published a manual called „How to realize your rights?“. This publication can be useful to everyone, but...
Belgrade, on July 17, 2019, Roma who are registered as baggage porters were prevented by the Belgrade Bus Station (BBS) security and the police from accessing the arrivals platform of the bus station. Baggage porters that have been working at the BBS are registered entrepreneurs in the...
During the public discussion on the Draft Law on Social Cards initiated by the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Issues, the A 11 Initiative and the Share Foundation formulated and submitted comments to the draft law. Considering the importance of this law for the announced...
The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality issued an opinion based on the complaint of the A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, stating that the Social Welfare Center in Pozarevac (hereinafter: SWC) had committed an act of discrimination by calling to account persons who...
The manual „Administrative Procedure from a Human Rights Standpoint“ has been prepared as part of the project “Operationalization of Human Rights – From Practical Policy to the Local Level”, and implemented with the support of the UK Embassy in Belgrade. This publication is designed for public...
A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, through the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Serbia, has organized the marking of 20 years of internal displacement in Serbia. The event was organized in light of the 20th anniversary of the beginning...
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate at the marking of the 20 years of internal displacement in Serbia organized by the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights through the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office...
A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social rights has organised a panel discussion “THE POSITION OF WOMEN ON LABOR MARKET – from numbers to actual status”. Panel discussion was organised within the project Operationalisation of human rights – from policy to local levels with the support...
A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social rights has submitted comments regarding follow- up document that Serbia has submitted on January 2019 to the UN Human Rights Committee in relation to the Concluding observations on the Third periodic report of Serbia. A 11 Initiative has stated, in comments...
Today at the eight session of the Council of the Government of the Republic of Serbia in charge of monitoring of the implementation of recommendations of UN mechanisms for human rights, the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights presented an initiative for...
At the beginning of the forum, Marko Vasiljević from the A 11 Initiative emphasized the importance of economic and social rights for the improvement of the position of the LGBTI population in Serbia and countries of the region. He pointed out that the main idea...
Within the project Operationalisation of human rights- from policy to local levels, A 11 – Initiative For Economic and Social Rights has, with the support of the British Embassy in Belgrade”, organised training “Administrative justice and obtaining the rights of the vulnerable groups” The training has...
The Union University Law School and the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights invite interested undergraduate and graduate students to apply to participate in an extracurricular program Practicum for Economic and Social Rights, which will take place in the summer semester 2018/2019. The purpose...