Human rights in Serbia are generally respected, and the government has kept making progress in the cooperation with The Hague Tribunal, the late Thursday 2009 report of the U.S. State Departemnt stated, and evaluated that the courts in Serbia are still subject to corruption and political influence.

Unlike recent years, when the Serbian authorities were mostly criticized for not having arrested the remaining two Hague indictees, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, the latest report characterizes the cooperation as positive.

The special war crimes chamber of the Belgrade District Court continued to try cases arising from crimes committed during the 1991-99 conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and the government, as assessed in the report, made a significant progress in the cooperation with neighboring countries, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and other international organizations.

In a very detailed report on Serbia, however, it is pointed out that there were cases of violation of human rights, such as physical mistreatment of detainees by police, corruption in the police and the judiciary, inefficient and lengthy trials, harassment of journalists, human rights advocates, and others critical of the government, as well as cases of ethnic, religious and sex discrimination.