The Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) reached a decision to, for the first time, defer the confirmation of Serbia’s national human rights institution’s, i.e. the Protector of Citizens’ “A” status pertaining to the observance of the...
In the procedure that was initiated on the basis of the complaint submitted by A 11 Initiative, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality issued an opinion stating that the city of Smederevo breached article 7 of the Law on Discrimination, by failing to include...
Over seventy families have lived in the facilities of the former company "Vijadukt" in Resnik, mostly Roma men and women, who moved in the abandoned workers' barracks. In addition to the Roma population, internally displaced persons from Kosovo, refugees from Croatia, as well as former...
The A 11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights implemented its first annual School of Economic and Social Rights, between 7 November and 19 December 2020. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lessons had to take place online, via Zoom. Although this...
"It is better to play real table tennis with a colleague, rather than shifting responsibility for the economic and social rights of citizens from one ministry to the another." On the occasion of the Human Rights Day marked on December 10, the Initiative for Economic and...
In the week marking the International Human Rights Day, civil society organizations are drawing attention to the catastrophic situation the homeless people in Belgrade are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Namely, in addition to the exclusion and rejection from the community that homeless people face already...
More than 600 residents in the settlement of Kamendin in Zemun Polje, the largest settlement of social housing in Belgrade, have been on the brink of survival for months, pressed by debts for housing costs and enforcement procedures for debt collection. At the moment, more...
The City of Belgrade and a consortium made up of the companies Suez, Itochu and Marguerite, which are building a waste incinerator at the Vinča landfill with the financial support of the EBRD, have failed to uphold the standards of this bank in relation to the...
On 15 November 2020, A 11 Initiative submitted its comments to the Committe on the Rights of the Child in line with the Committee’s call for comments on the text of the Draft General Comment no. 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital...
The A 11 Initiative calls on the Shelter for Adults and the Elderly to urgently provide admission to beneficiaries facing homelessness who, without the support of the social protection system, can in no way meet basic needs for adequate and dignified accommodation, care and nutrition. In...