Promo

20.February 2025. Danilo Curcic

"Bagger" housing policy

For years, we have witnessed that the state does not fulfill its obligations in any aspect of the right to adequate housing. How else to understand the fact that this summer we had a case in which, after a fire in an informal settlement in Belgrade, families with babies a few weeks old were sleeping on the street, without the support of the competent city and social services?

Poverty in Serbia

03.May 2024. Milica Srejić

Cash social assistance increased by 229 dinars: Not even for survival

Cash social assistance for individuals from April to October this year amounts to 11.674 dinars, which is 229 dinars higher than in the previous half-year. Danilo Ćurčić from the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights A 11 tells "Vreme" that this "increase" is the result of adjustment with the consumer price index in the previous six months, but also that this adjustment does not fully correspond to inflation and the overall increase in the cost of living

Today is World Roma Day.

World Roma Day

08.April 2024. Milica Srejić

Marina Simeunović: The society does not have an adequate mechanism for protection against discrimination

"A survey was recently conducted that shows that as many as 32 percent of representatives of public authorities do not know that there is a Law on Prohibition of Discrimination. This is very problematic, because if every third person does not know, the question is how he will be able to treat a citizen of Roma nationality or any other nationality or anything that can be a basis for discrimination from that position.