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......
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 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......
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......
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......
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......
After A 11- Initiative for Economic and Social Rights submitted a complaint, The Commissioner for Protection of Equality issued an opinion that determined that The Secretariat for social welfare of City of Belgrade has discriminated K.S, a person with disability that lives in container settlement......
The initiative for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights submitted to the Office for Human and Minority Rights was rejected without due justification. Although......
At the end of the December, A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights presented the report that was result of a project “Local integration of Internally displaced persons in Serbia” that was conducted with support of UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) . The report......
A 11- Initiative for Economic and Social rights has organised the conference “The Day after Human Rights day- where are we now?” within the project that is supported by the British Embassy. The conference was organized around three panels on the topics of intersectionality of......
A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights and the Child’s Rights Center submitted the Initiative for the ratification of the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Communication Procedures and signing and ratification of the Optional Protocol......
A- 11 initiative for Economic and Social rights organised the forum “Remaining problems on the path towards the full realization of the human rights of internally displaced persons in Serbia”, in Belgrade on 31 October 2018, where the speakers were Joanna Whiteman, an expert in......
The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality delivered an opinion on the complaint of the A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, stating that the Health Center Zemun had committed an act of discrimination against Roma. The Initiative A11 filed a complaint regarding the content......
A 11 Initative has lodged to Constitutional Court an Initiative for assessment the constitutionality of article 25, paragraphs 1-6 of the Law on Financial Support to the Family with Children. Disputed article results in abolition of the right to the parental allowance if even one......
Exactly four years ago, the Decree on Social Inclusion Measures for Recipients of Financial Social Assistance came into force. The Decree prescribes, among other things, that able-bodied financial social assistance recipients must do community service in their local communities in order to keep receiving the......
At the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Resolution 37/4 on the right to adequate housing was adopted. By doing so, this body reaffirmed the multifariuos importance of the enjoyment of this right – for the realization of a dignified life......
The A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights had difficulties accessing the right to free access to information of public importance related to the implementation of social inclusion measures for beneficiaries of financial social assistance. As part of a research on social inclusion measures that......
During the first week of the March session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the A 11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights attended a meeting of organisations dealing with the right to adequate housing, organized by the Global Initiative for Economic,......
The A11 Initiative submitted an initiative to amend the Law on the Protection of the Right to Trial within a Reasonable Time to the Department for the Protection of the Right to Trial within a Reasonable Time of the Higher Court of Cassation in the......
During regular activities, that include field visits to Roma settlements in the aim of providing free legal aid and counselling regarding the right to access social protection and right to adequate housing, the activists from the A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights visited families......
Since March 21, 2018, the A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, in cooperation with the Union University Faculty of Law, has been implementing the Practicum for Economic and Social Rights at the Union University Faculty od Law. The purpose of the Practicum is to......
The Human Rights Committee is currently in the process of adopting the General Comment 36, which elaborates Article 6 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, that is to say on the right to life. The very fact that this comment is......
Initiative for eonomic and social rights A11 filed a constitutional appeal on behalf of N.V, a refugee from former Yugoslavia, who has been unjustifiably declined tax deduction as a result of the discriminatory application of regulation. In addition to the amendments to the Law on......