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As promised in my previous post, here’s a (quick, sorry I’m a bit under the weather today) update on the anti-discrimination law situation.
Well, unsurprisingly, the situation attracted much media interest with it being the topic on a whole host of programmes; both views for and against the withdrawal of the anti-discrimination law were [...]
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Anti-Discrimination Law Update
Anti-Discrimination Law Withdrawn Because of Church
The separation of the church/religious communities and the state is enshrined in the Constitution of Serbia. However, with today’s news that a draft anti-discrimination law was withdrawn [in Serbian] from adoption procedures in the Serbian Parliament under pressure from the Serbian Orthodox Church, it seems somebody didn’t get the memo.
The Serbian Orthodox Church has taken [...]
Katja And Her Dogs
This is Katja, a friend of ‘Bibi’ over at A Yankee In Belgrade. She lives on a small piece of land on the outskirts of Belgrade and looks after some 300 stray and abandoned dogs. She looks after them mainly by herself, but she does have some volunteers who help at times.
Stray dogs are a [...]
The Kanun – Albania's Blood Feuds
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Following on from their article on Albania’s sworn virgins, the BBC has written about one Albanian family’s plight resulting from a decades long blood feud:
“Eleven-year-old Nikolin dreams about the day he can walk out of his house without fear and attend the local school…Seated on the porch of his parent’s small farmhouse in northern [...]
Attack of the Dogs
According to this article from B92, 16 people have been attacked and bitten by a pack of stray dogs which hangs out at the hospital in Zajecar, a town of 39,000 in eastern Serbia, over the last two weeks. Patients and doctors have been bitten, with one victim saying that the dogs were calm at [...]
