Nobody came out normal “I knew what it meant to be beaten, I used to get into fights, but that thing when you sit, stand in a cop shop and must not defend yourself, and don’t know from what direction they will whack you…I feel like vomiting even now when I hear the bullshit like ‘You cannot raise a child …

“There is a study that demonstrated that the stigma of psychiatric patients is constant. Stigmatization is a constant trait of history, we are branded and this will not change. But this does not mean that we don’t have to strive to change it, because stigma is made of the prejudices people have”. Dragan Jugović is the first psychiatric patient in …

“As a parent of an autistic child, who has lived without support of the system and without my legal rights since my son was three and a half years old, I realized during this interview that it is a kind of torture. I do not know how much torture differs from violation of rights, maybe the word is too strong, …

Elusive summer ’95. ”When he saw my ID, police officer said: “You are as big as a house, and you are hiding while the others die, shame on you”. Some of the people that stood there said: “Take him, we shouldn’t be dying for his home”. Others were silent, some were looking into the ground, visibly ashamed, but they didn’t …

Ali’s story On the road to nowhere   Ali sits on the bench in the park near the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, for years now known as “Afghan park”, among refugees that are passing across the Balkan countries. His clothes are worn, shoes in miserable condition. He says he is 25 years old. To the comment that he looks …