Serbia: Evicted Roma families finally granted access to water

Headline Title: Serbia: Evicted Roma families finally granted access to water 19 July 2012 Action by Amnesty International has prompted the authorities in the Serbian city of Nis to supply drinking water to Roma families who were forcibly evicted from their homes in the capital Belgrade nearly three months ago.Since their forced eviction from the informal Belvil settlement on 26 April, five families – 18 people in all, including children and a baby born shortly after their arrival – have been living in an abandoned warehouse in the southern Serbian city of Nis, with no access to running…

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