On 26 July 2013, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted Concluding Observations on the combined second and third period report of the Republic of Serbia (CEDAW/C/SRB/2-3). Among others, the Committee recognized some of the key issues and problems to which Praxis and European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) had pointed in the Parallel Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

The Committee welcomed the adoption, since the consideration of the State party’s previous report, of certain laws and strategic documents aimed at eliminating discrimination against women, as well as the ratification and accession to a number of international and regional instruments.

Furthermore, the Committee also pointed to the principle areas of concern and produced recommendations for overcoming observed problems and gaps, and requested that the State party submit to the Committee, within two years, written information on the steps undertaken to implement the recommendations. The Committee also invited the State party to submit its fourth periodic report in July 2017.

For more information, please see the announcement: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Produced Recommendations to Serbia in its Concluding Observations