Europe’s LGBT rights organisation, ILGA Europe has criticised Serbia and Turkey for their handling of LGBT community rights in its latest Rainbow Map and Index published on 11.05.2023. The report says...
On 8 December, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro published a document Handbook on media reporting on gender-based violence against women, a guide for media professionals on how to report about gender-based...
In the case of Mastilović and others v. Montenegro (application no. 28754/10, 24.02.2022) the European Court of Human rights found a violation of Article 6 in respect of 19 of...
The European Court of Auditors published on 10.01.2022 a Special Report “EU support for the rule of law in the Western Balkans: despite efforts, fundamental problems persist” In the report they...
In the case of Špadijer v. Montenegro (application no. 31549/18, 09.11.2021) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to...
Media organisations in the Balkans should have proper regulations on sexual harassment and gender-based abuses, and media workers should speak out and support female colleagues if they are targeted, journalists...
In the case of Siništaj v. Montenegro (application no. 31529/15, 23.09.2021), the European Court of Human Rights found a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention on account...
The first same-sex marriage in Montenegro was registered on 25.07.2021 in the coastal resort of Budva, a year after Montenegro became the first non-EU country in the Balkans to legalize...
In a new report on Montenegro published on 02.06.2021 the Council of Europe’s anti-trafficking group calls on the authorities to improve trafficking victims’ access to justice and compensation, and to...
According to US analytics company Gallup, which released a new survey on September 23, finding that countries from Southeast Europe are among the least accepting of migrants. The lowest score in...