The Coalition against Discrimination, Coalition for Access to Justice and partner organizations are calling on deputies of the National Assembly to adopt the Law on Amendments to the Law on Non-Contentious Proceedings during its current session.

On 30 January 2012, the Government of the Republic of Serbia sent the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Non-Contentious Proceedings to the National Assembly for adoption. The aim was to enable persons, who due to objective reasons cannot fulfill conditions for birth registration in the administrative procedure under the Law on Registry Books, to regulate their status in non-contentious proceedings before the court, and thus cease being legally invisible persons.

Non-governmental organizations, European Union, Council of Europe, UNHCR, and other international organizations have been advocating for years for the systemic solution of the problem faced by legally invisible persons.

We are appealing to the ruling coalition in the National Assembly and all deputies to adopt the Draft Law because any further delay in solving this problem on the proposed basis would be completely unjustified and totally contrary to the interests of legally invisible persons.

The text of the Appeal and the list of organizations that supported it can be seen here.