A/HRC/37/55/Add.1 displacement-related needs. More than 14,000 displaced Roma are said to face a particularly vulnerable situation. 21. Serbia’s population is predominately Orthodox Christian with minority Roman Catholic, Muslim, atheist or non-religious, Protestant and Jewish populations. There is no State religion in Serbia and its law recognizes seven “traditional religious communities”. Other minority religious groups reportedly face difficulties in obtaining recognition. C. Specific issues of concern 22. In Serbia, progress has been made with regard to cultural rights since the 1990s. However, there remain serious challenges to cultural rights in many areas which must be urgently addressed. 1. Cultural governance and funding 23. The Special Rapporteur was pleased to note the existence of important institutions devoted to the protection and promotion of culture and cultural heritage in Serbia, including the Ministry of Culture and Media, the National Council of Culture and the Center for the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which are made up of many highly qualified and dedicated staff and experts. However, she was repeatedly told that these institutions receive insufficient funding, which limits their work. The 0.69 per cent of the budget devoted to culture in 2016 is significantly below the 1.0 per cent target set by UNESCO and must be increased, within resource constraints. 24. The Special Rapporteur was pleased to be told at the Ministry of Culture and Media that its efforts aimed at ensuring the non-repetition of the events of the 1990s, a commitment which needs full implementation. 25. The Special Rapporteur received assurances from the then Minister of Culture and Media during her mission that a draft strategy on culture, which would refer to human rights ⸻ including cultural rights ⸻ and express a commitment to the protection of the cultural heritage of all people living in Serbia would soon be submitted for public debate and finalized by the end of 2016. The development of such a strategy provides a unique opportunity for more fully developing the notion of cultural rights in Serbia, for adopting a cultural rights and human rights approach to all cultural policies and for enhancing the protection of cultural heritage. Unfortunately, the draft strategy, prepared since the Special Rapporteur’s visit, had not been adopted as of January 2018. The draft was not provided to the Special Rapporteur, and several of her interlocutors were unaware that the consultation reported by authorities had taken place. 2. Inclusion and non-discrimination in the field of cultural rights 26. The law on national councils of national minorities, enacted in 2009, grants national councils on minorities wide-ranging competences in the fields of culture, education and official use of language and alphabet. At the time of the Special Rapporteur’s mission, 21 such national councils were in existence. 27. This structure has a number of positive consequences for the cultural rights of members of minorities. For example, many of these councils have institutes for culture which publish books and magazines, and the councils are reportedly tackling issues related to culture and inclusion. However, many interlocutors stressed the need to decrease the resulting segregation of children belonging to some minorities in the education system, and more widely in society, when they are taught exclusively in their mother tongue and when members of the majority are not taught the relevant minority languages. 28. Roma civil society stressed to the Special Rapporteur the need for the creation of Roma cultural institutions to combat anti-Roma sentiment expressed, in particular, in the media and by those they termed “neo-Nazis”. They noted the lack of representation of Roma on the administrative board of Radio-TV Serbia and the perceived lack of inclusion of Roma-related material in local archives, all of which need to be addressed. 6