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Alternative Report to The United Nations Committee on The Rights of the Child

May 2025

The A 11 Initiative prepared and submitted our Alternative Report to The United Nations Committee on The Rights of the Child, for the 101st pre-session. We highlight issues including denial of parental allowance to Roma children, impact of the Law on Social Card on marginalized families, risk of family separation in cases of forced evictions etc.

Written Contribution to the European Commission 2024 Annual Report on Serbia

April 2024

Initiative A 11 prepared and submitted our Written Contribution to the European Commission 2024 Annual Report on Serbia.

This year we highlight issues of discrimination and hate crimes against Roma, access to adequate housing, lack of institutional support for social protection and other issues.

Alternative Report on the Republic of Serbia to the Human Rights Committee

February 2024

Written information for the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)’s 6th monitoring round country visit to Serbia

May 2023

Initiative A 11 prepared and submitted Written information for the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)’s, where we highlighted the general assessment of the situation and the most common problems faced by Roma in Serbia. In this sense, we reported on the following topics: Exclusion of vulnerable Roma children from financial benefits for families with children; The Law on Social Card; Access to health care for Roma women and children and implementation of the Law on Housing and Building Maintenance.

Written Contribution to the European Commission 2023 Annual Report on Serbia

April 2023

A 11 Initiative’s written contribution to the European Commission 2023 Annual Report for Serbia
focuses on inadequate implementation of recently introduced impact assessment duty from the Law
on Prohibition of Discrimination, denial of parental and child allowance to Roma children, the
position of Roma health mediators, discrimination against Roma, the lack of accountability for
discriminatory statements against Roma, and human rights issues related to the introduction of the
social card in the social protection system

Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of the List of Issues prior to reporting in relation to the Republic of Serbia

For 137 Session (27 February 2023 – 24 March 2023)

Guidelines for the Implementation of the Principle of Gender Equality in the Workplace

Legal Opinion on International and Comparative Human Rights Law Concerning the Matter of the Social Card Law Pending before the Constitutional Court of Serbia

November 2022

This legal opinion, warning about incompatibility of social card system in Serbia with international human rights standards, was co-authored by by Amnesty International, Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad, the Digital Welfare State & Human Rights Project at the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at New York University School of Law, the European Roma Rights Center, the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights, Kenya Human Rights Commission, and the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeastern University. Its preparation was coordinated by the Economic Social Rights Network. This legal opinion was filed to the Serbian Constitutional Court to assist the Court in the procedure of assessment of the constitutionality of the Law on Social Card, by offering relevant information and examples of the human rights ramifications of digitisation in similar contexts.

Report to the Human Rights Council at the 43rd Session of the Universal Periodic Review

October 2022

This submission to the Human Rights Council at the 43rd Session of the Universal Periodic Review of Serbia focuses on the denial of parental and child allowance to Roma children, the exclusion of undocumented Roma from cash assistance to mitigate consequences of the pandemic, the human rights concerns raised by the social cards system, access to health care for undocumented Roma women and children and ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic and Social rights.

Written Contribution to European Commission 2022 Annual Report on Serbia 

20 April 2022

A 11 Initiative’s written contribution to the European Commission 2022 Annual Report for Serbia focuses on labor rights, labor exploitation in the Linglong factory, the Law on Social Cards, the adoption of the National Housing Strategy, the right to adequate housing, denial of parental and children allowance to vulnerable Roma children and exclusion of the most vulnerable citizens from COVID-19 crisis mitigation measures.