In 2005 in Serbia (a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe neither in the southern Pannonian Plain nor the central Balkans), through a change in the Labor Law, discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment was banned, then that same year, Parliament approved the Law on Higher Education, which guarantees equal rights regardless of sexual orientation in those institutions.
Serbia (Serbian: , romanized: Srbija, pronounced [srbija), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian:  , romanized: Republika Srbija, pronounced [republika srbija), is a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. 
