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June 10, 2011 - The government of Serbia must intervene urgently and stop the ongoing practice of forced evictions by the City of Belgrade, after 12 families were removed without any notice from their homes under the Pančevo Bridge on Tuesday, 7 June. The eviction took the Roma community completely by surprise.

Belgrade, June 2, 2011 - Serbia's Constitutional Court has banned a neo-Nazi group as part of the country's attempts to curb far-right extremists.

Strasbourg, May 31, 2011 – The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) today published a new report on Serbia. ECRI’s Chair, Nils Muiznieks, said that, while there have been improvements, some issues of concern remain, for example the Law on Churches and Religious Communities and courts’ practice relating to racist crime.

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.