By Andrea Huber, Head of Amnesty International’s delegation in Belgrade
The media centre was packed with journalists and representatives of NGOs today for the launch of Amnesty International’s report Home is more than a roof over your head, which details cases of Roma who are being denied adequate housing in Serbia.
We arrived in Belgrade on Tuesday, flying in with a view of the Gazela bridge. The construction of the bridge resulted in the forced eviction of 178 families in August 2009 – one of the human rights violations that brought us here.
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The first march in central Belgrade in 10 years was against all discrimination © Amnesty International
By Lydia Aroyo, Europe and Central Asia Press Officer at Amnesty International
Belgrade Pride 2010 began this morning in beautiful weather with a call for tolerance. The violence that erupted outside the venue of the march proved that tolerance is yet to be achieved.
The first march in nearly 10 years in central Belgrade was against discrimination in all its manifestations. It came a day after nationalist organizations and representatives of the Serbian Orthodox clergy led demonstrations calling for the government to ban Belgrade Pride 2010. Continuar leyendo ‘Belgrade Pride 2010 – a call for tolerance, against discrimination’ »
By Lydia Aroyo, Europe and Central Asia Press Officer at Amnesty International
Amnesty International members are arriving today in Belgrade to take part in tomorrow’s Belgrade Pride 2010. They are going to support Serbia’s lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community (LGBT) in their march against discrimination and for tolerance for the first time in nearly ten years. Last year’s Pride had to be cancelled at the last moment because the authorities declared they could not ensure the safety of the participants. Continuar leyendo ‘On the eve of Belgrade Pride 2010′ »
By Sian Jones, Researcher, Amnesty International
We’ve just heard that the Belvil Romani settlement in Belgrade will be evicted soon. Four of the families have received eviction notices, although they don’t know when they will be evicted. Everyone living there is really worried about what is going to happen to them.
Just over a year ago the Romani settlement next to Belvil – at Blok 67 – was forcibly evicted to build an access road for the Student Games. Although the Roma living there knew they would be evicted, when the day actually came they were given no warning, and their houses were just bulldozed to the ground. It was the same with the Roma evicted from under the Gazela Bridge last August. That was supposed to be a proper resettlement, not a forced eviction, but in less than three hours, almost 200 houses were bulldozed to the ground.
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