Four Roma families evicted from Belgrade had to leave the hostel in Leskovac where they had been temporary accommodated. The whole text can be read here.

Non-governmental organization Praxis warned on Tuesday that Roma evicted from the informal settlement Belvil in Belgrade and then accommodated in Leskovac would be homeless starting from tomorrow. The whole text can be downloaded here.

Non-governmental organization Praxis warned on Tuesday that Roma evicted from the informal settlement Belvil in Belgrade and then accommodated in Leskovac would be homeless starting from tomorrow. The whole text can be downloaded here.

Non-governmental organization Praxis warned on Tuesday that Roma evicted from the informal settlement Belvil in Belgrade and then accommodated in Leskovac would be homeless starting from tomorrow. The whole text can be downloaded here.

UNHCR's representatives held a meeting with the Roma in the premises of the Municipal Assembly of Smederevska Palanka on 1 June 2010. See the video on youtube.

"What they are unable to do is to prove the fact of their birth and to meet the requirements set by the Law on Registry Books, related to the type and quantity of necessary evidence", said Ivana Stankovic, Programme Coordinator in Praxis, for RTS. You can download the whole text here.

NGO Praxis visited the Roma settlement in Ledine accompanied by Iva Martinovic from Pescanik. The interview with Praxis' lawyer Jelena Milonjic and the residents of this settlement can be downloaded here.

On 1 December 2010, Praxis started implementing the project Contribution to Social Inclusion and Combat against Discrimination of Marginalized Population in Serbia funded by Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which will last by 30 November 2013.

The project goal is the reduction of discrimination and elimination of systemic obstacles in accessing personal documents and socio-economic rights by the marginalized population groups.

The project activities include:

1)    monitoring, analyzing and documenting the improvement of the legal framework and institutional practice regarding access to human rights by marginalized population, gaps in legislation, strategic plans and institutional practice, as well as cases of discrimination
2)    organizing workshops in informal settlements
3)    sensitizing local and national stakeholders
4)    strategic litigation challenging discrimination
5)    evaluation in progress in the process of social inclusion

The first implementation year ended on 30 November 2011.  During that period, Praxis’ cooperating partner was the Roma Educational Centre from Subotica.

Download: Praxis' First Year Report - NMFA

Within the Project “Contribution to Social Inclusion and Combat against Discrimination of Marginalized Population in Serbia", funded by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Praxis issued a report Analysis of the Main Problems and Obstacles in Access of Roma in Serbia to the Right to Education.

Universal accessibility of the right to education, as one of the fundamental human rights essential or exercise of other human rights, is one of the major challenges of modern mankind. The significance of this challenge is supported by the fact that universal education has been listed as one of the Millennium Development Goals1 the achievement of which should contribute to eradication of poverty.

Although the problem of the lack of education in Serbia may be observed among the members of different economically and socially marginalised groups, the scale of this problem is the most pronounced among the Roma national minority. Since the achievement of universal education in Serbia is impossible to conceive without paying special attention to this group, this analysis is primarily dedicated to the obstacles which the Roma population faces in access to the right
to education. It is only by including this group into the education system, that achievement of the universal primary education-related Millennium Development Goals is possible.

Download: Analysis of the Main Problems and Obstacles in Access of Roma in Serbia to the Right to Education