Statelessness

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and the new representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Belgrade Hans Friedrich Schodder discussed on Thursday the issue of displaced persons in Serbia and the implementation of the Regional Housing Program for refugees.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament adopted on Tuesday the Law on Employment of Foreigners, which allows foreign nationals to enter into temporary and occasional employment contracts for a period of up to three months in a calendar year, while temporary residence exceeding 90 days is envisaged for foreigners who join their family members in Serbia.

Region works to resolve issue of legally invisible persons

Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie backed an ambitious global campaign on Nov. 4 to end the plight of at least 10 million stateless people with no country to call home.

The new U.N. human rights envoy for Myanmar expressed serious concern about the conditions in camps for more than 100,000 mostly minority Muslims displaced by violence led by Buddhist extremists, and warned that the country's human rights situation may be deteriorating.