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April 7, 2011 - In this report, Amnesty International documents a pattern of forced evictions by the City of Belgrade of Roma communities living in informal settlements. The report describes how the Serbian government has failed to comply with its obligations to respect the right to adequate housing by failing to prohibit, and protect against, forced evictions.

March 30, 2011 - Michelle Chan, an intern with MRG’s Legal Cases Programme, wishes the Council of Europe could take ethnic-based politics in Bosnia as seriously as UEFA.

Strasbourg, Vienna, Warsaw, March 21, 2011 – In a joint statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Nils Muiznieks, Chair of the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI); Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); and Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), strongly condemned manifestations of racism and related intolerance.

December 20, 2010 - The Refugee Councils, PRO ASYL, Chachipe and other Roma and support organisations have welcomed the lifting of the visa obligation for citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania in

December 12, 2010 - The Q Association condemns, in a statement endorsed by the CURE Foundation, Labris (Serbia), Juventas (Montenegro) and owpsee foundation, the latest case of hate-speech directed at homosexual people in the “Glas Srpske”

December 10, 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency today called on the European Union (EU) and its border agency, known as FRONTEX, to ensure that asylum in Europe is not being threatened in the drive for tighter policing of the continent’s external borders.

Zagreb, December 7, 2010 - Ethnically-motivated attacks, on Serbs and Roma in particular, as well as the impunity of perpetrators continue to be a serious problem in Croatia.

December 5, 2010 - The government of the Belgian province of Flanders adopted a plan and strategy for social and professional integration of Roma from Bulgaria and Romania on the territory of Belgium, RIA Novosti reported.

Vienna, November 30, 2010 - This report updates the FRA comparative legal analysis of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity first published in June 2008. It presents the situation as it stood at the end of 2009, though information gathered in 2010 has been incorporated to the greatest possible extent. Five main trends among EU Member States can be noted from the information presented in this report.

Belgrade, November 25, 2010 - A survey conducted by the Women against Violence network shows that 26 women were killed in Serbia in the first ten months of 2010.