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After Serbia ignored the advice of the UN Committee Against Torture and extradited Kurdish political activist Cevdet Ayaz to Turkey, activists and experts have accused of Belgrade of disrespecting important human rights bodies.

The latest report of the UN Human Rights Committee has criticized Serbia for not naming a War Crimes Prosecutor, for allowing suppression of freedom of expression and for inaction over persistent hate crimes.

BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has said in a release that it fully supports the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee's assessment that the UNMIK mission has failed to conduct efficient investigations in cases related to organ trafficking in KiM in 1999 and 2000.

UNMIK "failed to efficiently investigate Kosovo organ trade"

BELGRADE -- An association of families of kidnapped and murdered Serbs in Kosovo has voiced its support for a recent opinion of a UN committee related to human organ trade.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said Thursday that the parliament is ready to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which envisages a complaints procedure before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, able to address a broader range of children's rights violations.