May 21, 2008. Belgrade
Labris – lesbian human rights organization condemns and finds intolerable the statement given by Petar Lađević, the chief of Human and minority rights department, saying that he feels equally disturbed by both “the manner in which the ultraconservative organizations” and “those promoting the right to homosexuality or different sexual orientations” react when it comes to homophobia. |
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Serbian Association of Medical Doctors: Homosexuality is not a Disease
A letter from the Psychiatric Section of the Serbian Association of Medical Doctors, send to Labris - lesbian human rights organization upon request that this domestic institution confirm the official position the World Health Organization has held for 18 years, stated that „homosexuality is not a disease.“
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On January 1, 2008, "Labris" - Lesbian Human
Rights Organization began a new cycle of analyzing the daily print media in Serbia.
In other words, Labris scans the texts for LGBTIQ topics and/or terminology and
assesses the reasons for, the manner of, as well as the quantity and quality of
reports on same-sex oriented population in daily press. Every three months
Labris publishes a report with its findings. |
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RTS once again airs insults and degradation |
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Again violence against women in television programme „48 sati svadba“ |
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Regarding the statement of Mladen Obradovic, the chairman of the right-wing organization Obraz |
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regarding the decree issued by the misdemeanor court against the activists for the lesbian and gay rights from Niš |
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Priština, February 16th, 2008
Labris representatives took part in the panel discussion organized by the Youth Initiative for Human rights in Priština. Activists from two LGBT organizations in Priština were also present. Objective of this discussion was to strengthen capacities of LGBTTQ activism in Kosovo and to exchange ideas and experiences of these organizations as well as to initiate cooperative relation. |
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On March 7th, 2008, per invitation from the Vojvodina Provincial Ombudsperson Petar Teofilovic and his deputy for equality of sexes Danica Todorov, two representatives of Labris - lesbian human rights organization held an interactive seminar for the employees of the Provincial Ombudsperson's office as well as several local ombudspersons from Vojvodina. |
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On January 1, 2007, "Labris" - Lesbian Human Rights Organization began a new cycle of analyzing the daily print media in Serbia. In other words, Labris scans the texts for LGBTTIQ topics and/or terminology and assesses the reasons for, the manner of, as well as the quantity and quality of reports on same-sex oriented population in daily press. Every three months Labris publishes a report with its findings. |
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Belgrade - The organization Labris protests and asks for a public apology following instances of hate-talk on TV B92's Big Brother show. |
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On 24th and 25th of November Labris – lesbian human rights organization held a seminar for active job search for women. The seminar was organized in Labris' office space as a part of the Info Center's program. It was realized by Jovanka Corovic and Ana Bu, the coaches from Team TRI of the Civic Initiatives. The program was molded after the Civic Initiatives' program One step to a job – Program for support in employment. Six participants from Belgrade and Goc attended the seminar. |
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To: Oliver Dulić, President of the National Assembly of Republic of Serbia |
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The third seminar titled "The L… Word" was held in Belgrade from the 1 st to the 4th of November. The seminar, organized by Labris - Lesbian Human Rights Organization from Belgrade, targeted lesbians and women of sexual orientation different than heterosexual. |
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A press release by Lesbian and Gay organizations and Human Rights organizations in regards to the case of Antal Skendzic, a suspect in the homicide of his mother. |
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Human rights defenders in general, whether they are women’s rights defenders, national or ethnic minority rights defenders or LGBT human rights defenders, often face a lot of difficulties in carrying out their activities. |
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Political context:
Considering Serbia as a highly homophobic, xenophobic and nationalistic environment, affected by social and economic crises, where, in spite of the coalition of democratic parties, Serbian Radical Party is a very strong political force, we could hardly talk about LGBT human rights. LGBT rights are not recognized as basic human rights by the official governmental Agency for Human and Minority rights, but are dealt with by several LGBT NGOs and HR NGOs. Violence, discrimination and public hate speech against LGBT population happen often in public and the media. |
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The campaign “Love for All” was started because of a high degree of homophobia present in our society which to great extent comes from public spaces – the media before all, but also from influential intellectuals, celebrities, cultural emissaries… |
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Organized by the Q Association for promotion and protection of culture, identity and queer individuals’ human rights, seminar on activism and LGBTIQ human rights for LGBTIQ population was held in Sarajevo on 13th – 15th April 2007. |
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Labris – lesbian human right organization organized the seminar Different but equal for the youth members of political parties in the period from March 28th – 31st 2007. The seminar was held in Banja Vrujci and represents a part of the project “Education and Lobbying”. Individuals from the following parties participated: Serbian Civil Alliance, Social democratic Union, Liberal Democratic Part, Vojvodina’s Social democratic League and G17+. |
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