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Romi

03.September 2026 B. B.

Will Roma finally stop being the electorate of other parties?

The President of the Union of Roma of Serbia, Miloš Mihajlović, assessed that for too long the Roma were treated primarily as the electorate of other political parties.

Initiative

15.August 2026 S. Ć.

Roma community: We have to invest in people and their education

We need to create an economy where people will not be forced to work for the minimum wage, says Salih Saitović, and the YUROM Center requests that affirmative enrollment be legally based

Attack of a woman on a Roma child in Šabac

Attack on a boy in Šabac

08.July 2026 Aleksa Petrovski

Street violence: Physical assault and insults on a national basis

The interlocutors of "Vremen" warn of the violation of the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Romi

08.April 2026. Anja Mihic

World Roma Day: Discrimination and congratulations

World Roma Day is celebrated on April 8. Congratulations are coming from state and European officials, and systemic problems remain unresolved for decades

Police torture

17.February 2026. B. B.

European Court of Human Rights: Serbian police exposed a Roma married couple to torture

The European Court of Human Rights found that the Serbian police discriminated against a Roma couple and subjected the man to inhuman and degrading treatment, and that they did not conduct an effective investigation into the crimes committed against the couple.

From the newsletter

07.January 2026 Sonja Ciric

Dawn always comes.

Zora resides on Čuburi, on cardboard. He doesn't bother anyone and likes to talk. Sometimes it disappears, you don't know where.

Slovenija

20.November 2025 VK

"Sutarov's Law": How the Roma in Slovenia became a "security threat"

After the murder of Aleš Šutar, for which a young man of Roma nationality is accused, the parliament in Slovenia adopted a law that many consider discriminatory against Roma.

Democratic Union of Roma

22.August 2025 NM

DUR: Don't import Moroccans, train Roma to work at Fiat

President of the Democratic Union of Roma (DUR), Salih Saitović, on the occasion of the announcement that Serbia will import labor from abroad for the needs of the Stelantis factory in Kragujevac, called on the state to "focus on the education and employment of local Roma".

Beograd

06.June 2025 Sonja Ciric

Union of Roma: We will never allow the demolition of Aunt Bibija

The Roma Union says it will not allow an investor to demolish their shrine, Aunty Bibi, warns Roma not to sign a fake petition about it, and asks society to protect this cultural monument

Equality

10.May 2025. S.Ć.

Opre Roma: What would have happened if a Serbian and not a Roma family had been attacked

The attack on the Roma family Gashi near Kraljevo is proof that fascism exists, regardless of the fact that we have just celebrated the 80th anniversary of the victory over it - Opra Roma assesses and asks how the public would behave if it were a Serbian family

Croatia

23.April 2025. B. B.

A Croatian woman became a Roma woman: Did the politician from Međimurje "sell her faith for dinner"?

Maja Odrčić Mikulić, head of Međimurje, said that she wants to be a bridge between Croats and Roma. "It is a subjective feeling, many of my Roma people who stand behind me say that I have always been theirs and that my soul is Roma," she explained.

Pressure on the socially vulnerable

11.April 2025. B. B.

Roma Party: Local sheriffs force Roma to Vučić's rally

"Our activists from the field report that they are scared because criminals are visiting their houses", they are forcing the Roma to go to the meeting of the Movement for the State and the People in Belgrade, announced the Roma Party.

World Roma Day

08.April 2025. Mensur Haliti

Instead of real change, EU encourages 'Roma inclusion industry'

Instead of supporting real political change at the local level, EU institutions fund performance: a tightly controlled "Roma inclusion industry"

Reacting

25.January 2025 S.Ć.

Opre Roma: Minorities are not respected in the National Assembly

None of those present at the meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information protested that Živorad Ajdačić was bothered by the emotion in, as he said, the "Gypsy language", the Opra Roma organization points out and demand that the National Assembly deprive him of all functions

Reacting

30.November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Opre Roma: The old fairground threatens to become a symbol of selective memory

"Let's imagine that someone declares that the sufferings of the Serbs in Jasenovac are 'inaccurate' or secondary - such words would, rightly, cause indignation. Why should the Roma deserve anything less?", asks Mensur Haliti, reacting to the statements from the Old Fairground Memorial Center that "downplay the importance of Roma suffering, and point to the systemic practice of hierarchy among the victims."

Discrimination of the Roma community in Serbia

11.September 2024 Milica Srejić

Racism and empty words

The news reads: at the "Vuk Karadžić" Elementary School in Ripnje, a group of parents told the school principal that there were "too many" Roma children in one class. Roma women and Roma are one of the most discriminated social groups in various areas of life, Brankica Janković, commissioner for the protection of equality, told "Vreme". What is the system's attitude towards the Roma community, and what is society's attitude towards?

Informal Roma settlement Antena on Bežanijska kosa

Society

11.September 2024 Milica Srejić

What happens to families after the fire in the Roma settlement of Antena?

At the beginning of August, a part of the informal Roma settlement Antena on Bežanijska kosa caught fire. Seven Roma families remained on the street, some of whom returned to Kosovo out of necessity. The city provided almost no assistance to families residing in Kosovo

Discrimination against Roma

06.September 2024 SZ

Ripanj: Some parents protest because there are "too many" Roma children in the class

A group of parents of children in an elementary school in Ripnje complained to the principal that there were "too many" Roma children in one class. Their parents say that this is racism and that they have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that their children were belittled on the basis of ethnicity at school.

Roma in Serbia

01.July 2024 SZ

The Belgrade government does not care about the forcibly displaced Roma from Vinča

The Belgrade government continuously violates human rights and simply ignores the Roma families who were forcibly displaced from the informal settlement on the edge of the landfill in Vinča. Five years ago, with the support of Initiative A 11, they submitted a complaint to the Independent Mechanism for Project Responsibility of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which financed the landfill reconstruction project.

Obrenovac

27.May 2024. Tijana Stanic

Mass desecration of Roma graves: "Pain in the soul, heart and head"

Last week, 42 mostly Romani graves were desecrated in two Obrenovac cemeteries. The writer Zlatomir Jovanović tells "Vreme" that he is still waiting for any reaction from the authorities, and he "remains pain in his soul, heart and head" because the grave of his only son was also desecrated.

Child marriages

27.April 2024. Maja Radu/DW

They still have time for carefree play, and they get married and have children

The study of the Roma Women's Network shows that there are several factors that contribute to early child marriage in Serbia: community closure, economic instability, poverty. One of the key factors is certainly the lack of access to education

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.

World Roma Day

08.April 2024. Sonja Ciric

Mensur Haliti: There is not a single representative of Roma parties in the Parliament

Congratulating the citizens of Roma nationality on the holiday, the government emphasizes its commitment to the greatest possible integration of Roma into society. The founder of the Roma Foundation for Democracy Serbia says that in practice this is not the case

Society

12.February 2024. S.Ć./Danas

Roma from Palilula: What do they have to do to mistreat us all?

A rally was held in support of the Roma and against police violence, on the occasion of the police raid that took place on Saturday in the Roma settlement in Belgrade on Vuka Vrčevića Street.

Minority rights

12.February 2024. Sonja Ciric

Opre Roma: There are norms according to which the Roma are a subordinate species

"In the same breath, Branimir Nestorović called the pro-European opposition gypsies and took an oath to defend human and minority rights faithfully to the Constitution. This perfectly illustrates the set social norms towards the Roma", Stevica Nikolić from the Opra Roma organization told "Vreme".

Beograd

12.February 2024. BG

Protest against police violence against Roma

Due to the brutal police violence against the inhabitants of the Roma settlement that happened on Saturday at Palilula, the Green Youth of Serbia is organizing a protest

Human rights

11.February 2024. Z.S.

Roma Union of Serbia: Punish abusers from the police

The Roma Union of Serbia expresses its deep concern and strong condemnation of the brutal and humiliating police behavior in the Roma settlement in the municipality of Palilula in Belgrade.