Glas javnosti - Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

Violations Of Lgbt Rights
at bus stops and restaurants. It was not before the crowd approached the
Government building that a police column appeared to protect it. There
were no policemen in the vicinity during the stoning of the club although
a party had been scheduled there an hour later and members of the gay
population could have been attacked. All the windows on the building
were broken. Soon aft er the second attack, the club had to be evacuated
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Debate on the Anti-Discrimination Law
In spite of the fact that the Anti-Discrimination Law was adopted aft er a
lengthy parliamentary debate, the debate itself was indicative of deputies’
attitudes to the LGBT population.
Svetozar Čiplić, Minister for Human and Minority Rights: „The goals
wished to be achieved by this law are as follows: to determine a general,
integral defi nition of the notion of discrimination and of affi rmative
action; to determine discrimination against particular categories of persons
and in particular cases; to provide for special forms of protection
against discrimination; to provide for a special organ to coordinate actions
concerning the prohibition of discrimination and have various powers to
prevent discrimination by organs, organizations or physical persons; to
lay down a special civil procedure for protection against discrimination; to
lay down misdemeanour accountability and provide for and standardize
misdemeanours regarding discriminatory conduct.”
Miloš Aligrudić, DSS: „If, let’s say, the law says that the right to sexual
orientation is protected by the norms of this law, the possible subject
of protection or subjects who feel that way being in a way subjects to such
protection, it is reasonable to ask why persons suff ering from HIV infection
are not specially protected by this law other than by general norms,
given that on innumerable occasions and in innumerable cases we’ve had
occasion to see that those persons are subject to very serious discrimination
in their environment, especially children infected with HIV virus
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