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Protest against French deportation of Roma

Belgrade, September 4, 2010 - We invite you to the protest of solidarity with the Roma who have been deported in recent weeks in Romania and Bulgaria, but as citizens of the European Union have the right to reside in the territory of France.

Reform of the ECHR - joint NGO appeal for Interlaken Conference

11 December 2009 AI Index: IOR61/009/2009 The system for the protection of human rights in Europe is under scrutiny. States are examining the European Court of Human Rights. At a Conference in February 2010 they will take decisions which could bring welcome reform to relieve the Court’s backlog of cases.

Recommendations to the OSCE participating states concerning hate crimes

Contribution to the OCSE HDIM 2009 working session 10 on Tolerance and non-discrimination II (continued), October 5, 2009, by Suzette Bronkhorst representing the Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe (ICARE) on behalf of undersigned NGOs.

PR: City authorities prohibit RCM to make photos of new Roma settlements

Belgrade, Sept 22, 2009 During yesterday's regular visit to the settlement in Makis, where some Roma resettled from Gazela have been placed, representatives of the Regional Centre for Minorities accompanied by a journalist from a Swedish radio, were informed in a telephone conversation, that City Secretary for Social Protection, Mr. Djukic, has prohibited any pictures being taken of the settlement and that there is to be no interviewing of inhabitants without prior permission granted by the Secretariat. In response RCM requested today this prohibition in written form.

RCM and journalist of Borba visited Roma resettled from Gazela

Following the numerous complaints received by the Regional Centre for Minorities in Belgrade, representatives of the centre accompanied by Ivana Bogojev, a journalist from Borba, visited several loca

RCM joined INACH

Regional centre for minorities joined INACH. RCM will be a national contact organization and will be responsible of running complaints mechanism for hateful content on websites hosted in Serbia and/or in Serbian language. In addition, RCM will also actively monitor and participate in the removal of the reported discriminatory content.

PR - Roma settlement fenced off by wire

We strongly condemn the construction of a wire fence that began on June 16, 2009 thereby enclosing a Roma settlement in Block 67 in Novi Beograd. Erecting a fence around this settlement, which is located in the immediate vicinity to areas used by the Universiade, threatens the right of its residents to move about freely and to use the only water source which is located outside of the settlement.

UNDP: The Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination in minority languages