Serbia

Serbia has a population estimated at 9.8 million (UN, 2009, includes Kosovo; UN mission estimates Kosovo population as circa 2 million) with an area of 88,361 sq km (34,116 sq miles) (includes Kosovo). The capital is Belgrade. The major language is Serbian.

Serbia became a stand-alone sovereign republic in summer 2006 after Montenegro voted in a referendum for independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. When the vote was followed by a formal declaration of independence by Montenegro, a special session of parliament in Belgrade declared Serbia to be the legal successor to the now defunct union of Serbia and Montenegro.

Serbia ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in March 12, 2001
Serbia launched its National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in 2011. Please click here for further information
Serbia does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate

Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM

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April 5, 2012 (Huffington Post)
SERBIA: Women in Black: The Voice of Peace in Serbia They have been beaten, spat at and cursed. Jeered, mocked and ignored. But a few dozen women dressed in black regularly stand silently on Belgrade's main streets. They hold signs demanding an end to war, advocating human rights or reminding people of the bloody ethnic clashes in the former Yugoslavia that Serbia itself had triggered in the 1990s.
March 22, 2012 (B92)
BALKANS: Statement Urges Greater Role for Women in Security Sector The signing ceremony in Belgrade this Thursday officially launched a project dubbed “Support for Gender Mainstreaming in Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans”, Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said. Šutanovac said that today women have an important role in the armed forces, providing a new quality and capacity in response to security challenges and global threats.
December 21, 2011 (Radio Srbija)
SERBIA: Army Peacekeeping Missions Update Inclusion of women in Serbian Peacekeeping Missions
June 29, 2011 (Emg.rs)
SERBIA: National Conference "Response to Violence Against Women In Family and Partner Relations" State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and National Director of project “Fight against sexual and gender-based violence” Snezana Lakicevic will open the National conference “Response to violence against women in family and partner relations” on 29 June at 9.30 at the Deputies' Club, Tolstojeva 2.
May 20, 2011 (Blic Online)
SERBIA: Women Do Not Like Politics The number of women on political scene of Serbia, especially at influential posts, has been significantly dropping each year. Some of them are leaving because the politics directed by men became ugly for women, some because they could not realize what they wanted and some are simply forced out of politics by their political parties. Unofficially politicians claim that there is no quality female staff. Former and actual women in politics claim opposite.