Ana Curic

Ana Curic is a freelance investigative and data journalist based in Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently an intern with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) research team. She has worked for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Serbia, mostly covering misuse of public funds, justice, human rights and financial crime. She was also a fellow at Investigate Europe. She won the Quality Journalism Award 2021 in Hungary.

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Across the Balkans, women are taking to the streets in anger

Women’s rights protests have surged in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, after recent cases of abuse and femicide

By Ana Curic

/ 31 Oct 2022

Across the Balkans, women are taking to the streets in anger

EuroPride march to go ahead despite government ban, organisers say

Serbian authorities banned the event in Belgrade after an intense campaign by religious and far-right protesters

By Ana Curic

/ 14 Sep 2022

EuroPride march to go ahead despite government ban, organisers say

Bosnian politician who wanted LGBTIQ people ‘isolated’ loses landmark case

Anti-discrimination law was introduced in Bosnia 13 years ago – but it had never been used to protect LGBTIQ people

By Ana Curic

/ 29 Apr 2022

Bosnian politician who wanted LGBTIQ people ‘isolated’ loses landmark case

Balkans women face closed clinics and unsafe abortions under COVID-19

Rights advocates and doctors warn that coronavirus has intensified long-standing obstacles to access, particularly for poor and migrant women.

By Francesca Visser, Ana Curic and Fjori Sinoruka

/ 6 May 2020

Balkans women face closed clinics and unsafe abortions under COVID-19