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Split Mayor Won’t Face Charges for Outburst

ZAGREB -- The Zagreb prosecution will not be pressing charges against Split Mayor Željko Kerum, who insulted Serbs, Montenegrins and journalists on live television.


OSCE human rights office launches report on needs of judiciaries in handling war crimes cases in the Balkans

THE HAGUE, 23 September 2009 - The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute launched a joint report today analysing the needs of local judiciaries in dealing with war crimes committed in the Balkans in the 1990s.


"Ban Could Target Football Hooligan Groups Too"

BELGRADE -- Daily Danas writes that the Constitutional Court could be asked to ban football hooligan groups as well as ultra right-wing and nationalist groups.


Not guilty verdict in Bytyqi case

BELGRADE -22 September 2009 -- The war crimes chamber in Belgrade has cleared Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović of complicity in the murder of the Bytyqi brothers in 1999.


Bulgarian diplomat to become first woman to head UNESCO

22 September 2009 – A former foreign minister of Bulgaria, Irina Bokova, will become the first woman to lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after she won a narrow victory today in the fifth and final round of voting for the post.


Women’s Rights Activists Lobby to 'Engender' Constitution

HARARE - Zimbabwe’s latest constitutional reform process has generated strong interest among activists in strengthening protection for women's rights. The early signs are that the drafting of a new constitution will not prioritise correcting legal, social and economic discrimination against women.


Annual OSCE human rights conference opens in Warsaw on Monday

WARSAW, 22 September 2009 - Representatives of governments and civil society from the 56 OSCE participating States will gather in Warsaw on Monday to begin a two-week meeting that will review the progress made in implementing the commitments adopted by governments in the field of human rights and democracy.


OSCE Mission, European Commission Delegation and Council of Europe’s Office express their regret that the 2009 Belgrade Pride Parade has been cancelled

BELGRADE , 21 September 2009 - The three institutions stress that everyone has the fundamental right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression as well as protection from discrimination of any kind.


HRW: Migrants Describe Forced Returns, Abuse EU Should Press Italy to Halt Illegal Forced Returns to Libya

September 21, 2009 (Rome) - Italy intercepts African boat migrants and asylum seekers, fails to screen them for refugee status or other vulnerabilities, and forcibly returns them to Libya, where many are detained in inhuman and degrading conditions and abused, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today.


Pride March 2009 Is Banned

Belgrade Pride 2009 Organizing Committee would like to declare that, during the meeting with the Serbian Prime Minister today, they were issued an official decree signed by the Head of Serbian Police, Milorad Veljovi?, which states that the public safety corps of the Republic of Serbia are not able to ensure the Constitutional right for a peaceful assembly on the Square in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.