Para 95) In the following period, an analysis of the status and rights of intersex and transexual persons will be carried out in order to improve the normative framework.
Para 96) The first community center for LGBTI persons in Serbia was opened in Novi Sad in April 2018.
Para 97) Six out of eight textbooks with discriminatory content against the LGBTI population have been replaced.
Para 97) BCN noted that despite Serbia’s anti-discrimination legislation and international commitment to human rights treaties, the country did not include LGBTQI+ topics in national curricula, teachers received no mandatory training on LGBTQI+ awareness, and inclusive education policies lacked effective implementation.
Para 51) The United Nations country team reported that threats, and in some cases physical attacks on premises and individuals, against civil society organizations, human rights defenders and activists, mostly against those working on transitional justice, media freedoms, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and climate change, continued to be recorded. Reportedly, many of those attacks had not been thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators had not been prosecuted. Some of the attacks had led to mass protests, occasionally dispersed by the police.
Para 101) The United Nations country team, noted that hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons occurred frequently and were not adequately prosecuted and sanctioned. Family violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons included verbal and physical abuse, eviction from family homes and forced medical treatment. Roma lesbian women had been identified as particularly vulnerable, being exposed to intersectional discrimination and violence, including within their communities and families. Transgender persons were often pathologized, and a lack of necessary and adequate hormone therapy medications was reported.