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REPORT OF THE SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, HINA
JILANI, ON HER MISSION TO SERBIA, INCLUDING KOSOVO
29 February 2008
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders on her
mission to Belgrade from 17 to 19 September 2007 and to Kosovo on 20 and 21 September
2007. The mission was part of a visit to the region that was concluded with a follow-up
mission to The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from 23 to 25 September 2007. The
findings and... |
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UNDER
THREAT
Belgrade, 5 September 2006
09/05/2006 , HCHRS
Government of Serbia missed an opportunity to be a constructive
negotiating partner of the international community in Vienna negotiations related to
Kosovo status. In parallel its unwillingness to hand over Ratko Mladic to the Hague
Tribunal led to the suspension of negotiations with EU. The government's inability to
perceive and respect the reality both in Kosovo and in a broader context, resulted in a
new, anti-European U turn of Kostunica-led authorities. The goal of that U turn is
homogenization of the whole society in order to effect renuciation of... |
ANTISEMITISM
The Helsinki Committee Communicates the News Reported by B92 News
Service for December 22, 2005:
"KOSTUNICA CONTRIBUTED AN ARTICLE
TO OBRAZ"
12/23/2005 , HCHRS
Novi Sad - In 1996, incumbent Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica
contributed an article to the "Obraz" magazine originating the "Obraz
Fatherland Movement." This is what the professor at the Social Sciences Department,
Nottingham University, England, Jovan Byford said today at the forum titled "Racism,
Fascism, Xenophobia." He said that Kostunica had written one nationalistic article
for the "Obraz" and wondered what has prompted him to contribute to an almost
unknown magazine, the more so since he must have been aware that the paper's... |
TORTURE
PRISONS IN SERBIA
April 2004 - April 2005
06/30/2005 , HCHRS
Authors: Marija Jelic, M.D. Igor Kuzmanovic, M.D. Gordana Lukic -
Samardzija, Natasa Novakovic, Marijana Obradovic; Consultant on the Project: Marija Jelic;
Belgrade, May 2005; This publication is published thanks to the Assistence of the European
Comission - European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights and its support to the
project "Prevention of Torture - Support for the Rehabilitation of Victims of
Torture"
This publication is the output of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia's
activity over the second year of the implementation of the project "Prevention of
Torture: Support to the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture" that is realized
thanks... |
LEGAL AID
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Conscious of the need for a centre where individuals and groups could
freely report threats or attacks against their person and property as well as cases of
discrimination, and where they could be provided with assistance and support in countering
such abuses, and, furthermore, conscious of the need to create an archive of human rights
violations and of the need to publicise human rights cases, the Helsinki Committee for
Human Rights in Serbia is initiating this project with the aim of... |
VULNERABLE GROUPS
RETURN OF REFUGEES
The Helsinki Committee monitors the problems of refugees, underlining
the inadequate policy of the governments of Serbia and Yugoslavia regarding refugee
issues, as well as their attempts to (ab)use them for political goals. Several tens of
thousands of refugees came to the Helsinki Committee's office and filled in forms stating
that they do not give up their property and that they want to return to their homes in
Croatia. The Committee has launched the project "I want to go home" aimed at
helping... |
