HRW report sees "little progress" in Serbia

Serbia has made "little visible progress" last year in the area of human rights, Human Rights Watch said in its new report, according to the Beta news agency.

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Monday, 23.01.2012.

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Serbia has made "little visible progress" last year in the area of human rights, Human Rights Watch said in its new report, according to the Beta news agency. The international NGO's document stressed that "the situation with ethnic minorities was still a cause for concern, while independent journalists still faced threats and violence". HRW report sees "little progress" in Serbia The annual report said Serbia's poor asylum system required reforms, while the growing tensions with Pristina was impeding Belgrade's dialog with the EU. The organization also said that Serbia had made little visible progress in protecting human rights in 2011, despite the European Parliament's January ratification of the stabilization and association agreement with Serbia, and the arrests of Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, the last two fugitives sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The organization also said that hostile acts against independent media outlets had grown into a serious issue, and that Roma in Serbia still faced discrimination and were the target of ethnically-motivated attacks. The report also recalled that the Belgrade gay pride parade was stopped because of fears of mass violence and that local and international non-governmental organizations had accused the Serbian authorities of buckling under pressure and not doing enough to counter hate speech. Beta

HRW report sees "little progress" in Serbia

The annual report said Serbia's poor asylum system required reforms, while the growing tensions with Priština was impeding Belgrade's dialog with the EU.

The organization also said that Serbia had made little visible progress in protecting human rights in 2011, despite the European Parliament's January ratification of the stabilization and association agreement with Serbia, and the arrests of Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, the last two fugitives sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

The organization also said that hostile acts against independent media outlets had grown into a serious issue, and that Roma in Serbia still faced discrimination and were the target of ethnically-motivated attacks.

The report also recalled that the Belgrade gay pride parade was stopped because of fears of mass violence and that local and international non-governmental organizations had accused the Serbian authorities of buckling under pressure and not doing enough to counter hate speech.

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