Ahead of Belgrade Pride, Da se zna! will visit six cities across Serbia in the coming months –Niš, Leskovac, Kragujevac, Kruševac, Čačak, and Užice – where we will organize peacefulPride protests, highlighting LGBT+ symbols and this year’s Belgrade Pride slogan: For Family. Through these protests, we aim to send a message of solidarity to LGBT+ people...
In an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, Serbian Prime Minister Đuro Macut statedthat the “LGBT agenda is against traditional values and cannot be accepted by the state ofSerbia.” He also claimed that Serbia seeks to preserve its original values as the foundation ofsocial life and as a source of national consciousness. Da se zna!...
The religious studies teacher at Primary School Bora Stanković – Klenike, KonstantinJovanović, publicly insulted, targeted, and discriminated against LGBT+ people on his X andFacebook accounts, creating a hostile environment and using hate speech that is dangerousand harmful for LGBT+ individuals in Serbia. In several posts, he publicly claimed that LGBT+ people have “mental disorders andpsychological problems”...
The Executive Director of the Association Da se zna!, Bojan Lazić, is participating in the “NoHate Speech Week” conference, held at the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg,organized by the Council of Europe. The conference is being held on the occasion of June 18 – the International Day for CounteringHate Speech, with the goal of bringing...
Our Matija Stefanović represented Da se zna! and Belgrade Pride at Pristina Pride, which thisyear was held under the slogan “Not a Step Back.” Congratulations to our colleagues from Pristina on a successfully held Pride Week and PrideMarch! ...
Our Matija Stefanović represented Da se zna! in Tirana at a training on labor rights for LGBT+activists from the Western Balkans and Turkey, organized by ERA, the organization forLGBTQ+ rights in the Western Balkans and Turkey. Participants in the program learned about labor rights and the protection of LGBT+ workers inthe region, developed strategies for cooperation...
The Executive Director of Da se zna!, Bojan Lazić, spoke on a panel during Novi Sad PrideWeek, together with Jelena Kotević from the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality andJovan Raonić, an activist from Group COME OUT. The discussion focused on challenges inaccessing justice for LGBT+ people, the specifics of legal proceedings in cases of...
This week, our Matija Stefanović, together with representatives of other NGOs, represented Dase zna! at a meeting of the Council of Europe Office in Belgrade, specifically the departmentsfor Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics(SOGIESC) and for Anti-Discrimination Cooperation (ADCU). The meeting was held ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, andTransphobia (IDAHOT)....
As part of the SI Leader Lab program in Stockholm, the Executive Director of Da se zna!, BojanLazić, together with civil society representatives from more than ten countries of Eastern Europeand the Western Balkans, visited the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) and met with Denis Begić,Member of Parliament from the Social Democratic Party. ...