Project / Promoted by: Rainbow Ignite (Belgrade, Serbia)
Author: Jelena Vasiljević
Reporting period: 2025
The Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Serbia: Progress, Challenges, and Pathways Forward – Report
This 95-page report by Rainbow Ignite provides a comprehensive, mixed-methods assessment of the legal, institutional and lived realities of LGBTI and non-binary people in Serbia, grounded in international instruments including the Istanbul Convention and CEDAW. Combining desk research, surveys of civil society organizations and community members, and freedom-of-information requests to state institutions, it examines private and family life (intersex issues, gender identity, same-sex unions, domestic violence), economic well-being (employment, poverty risk), education, healthcare, political participation, and protection from discrimination and violence. The central question — what is the current status of sexual and gender minorities in Serbia, why, and what can be done — frames recommendations aimed at civil society, academia, policymakers and international bodies including the Council of Europe and the UN.
