Belgrade

Roma housing destroyed in Belgrade

Posted Mon, 07/13/2009 - 8:36pm

Source: APSource: AP

Three months before the opening of the Universiade, Belgrade's City Secretariat for Inspections decided to destroy the Roma slum settlement located right next to the athlete's village "Belleville". On April the 3rd 2009 all of a sudden a couple of bulldozers showed up at the settlement and demolished 40 houses. As the demolition was carried out without any prior notice to the residents, the people did not even have time to save their belongings from being buried under the ruins. A few of them were practically rescued from their houses in the very moment when the bulldozers were demolishing them.

On June 16th 2009, a metal fence was built around the settlement. The fence is guarded by police and security staff on both sides, inside and outside the settlement. The residents are randomly forbidden to leave the settlement, which does not only limit their freedom of movement but also prevents them from
carrying out their regular daily work on the streets of Belgrade, their only source of income.

Serb Roma Lose Homes In Belgrade Slum Fire

Posted Thu, 02/05/2009 - 7:16pm
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A fire that broke out on Wednesday morning destroyed completely 11 houses built of cardboard, old tires and wood in the Roma slum situated under the Gazella bridge in the centre of Serbia's capital Belgrade.

The slum, estimated to house between 900 and 2,000 people, is slightly up from the riverbank of the Sava river, very near the city's expensive hotel and business district. The single-storey dwellings can best be desrcibed as huts made of cardboard and aluminum sheeting, held down by tires, rocks and bits of plastic.

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Serb Roma Lose Homes In Belgrade Slum FireBelgrade
Serbia
44° 47' 36.7116" N, 20° 28' 42.6576" E

“Serbia: progress made but more efforts needed to implement human rights”

Posted Sun, 10/19/2008 - 10:58pm

“Despite some steps in the right direction, obstacles to the effective implementation of human rights standards remain in Serbia”, says the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, completing a high-level official visit to the Republic of Serbia. Other than Belgrade, the Commissioner visited the Sandzak-Raska region, the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Kovin, Pozarevac and Southern Serbia. He also conducted hands-on site visits to institutions with human rights relevance, including closed institutions, such as prisons, remand centres and police stations; psychiatric hospital; refugee/Internally Displaced Persons camp as well as Roma settlements.

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