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CHRONICLES 33

Conflict in Numbers

Edited by Ewa Tabeau

Casualties of the 1990s Wars in the Former Yugoslavia (1991-1999)

 

 

The chronologically earliest demographic expert report appeared in a court hearing at ICTY in June 2000. The report was related to the missing...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 55

NEW PATRIARCH - NO BASIC CHANGES

January 2010

A change at the throne of the Serb Orthodox Church /SPC/ will effectuate no major changes in the SPC structure, organization and functioning or, for that matter, in its secular ambitions. In this context, newly elected Patriarch Irinej (Gavrilovic), former bishop of Nis, guarantees continuity. In other words, SPC will be trying to safeguard the space it has occupied at Serbia's public scene over the past ten years, strengthen its position and further expand its influence on governmental policies. As a markedly...
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SONJA BISERKO GETS A HIGH DECORATION

February 1, 2010

On February 1, 2010 Chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia received a high decoration from President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesic for her outstanding contribution to the promotion of human and civil rights...   More >>>

 

Helsinki Charter
No. 133-134

November - December 2009

This issue of the Helsinki Charter was published with the support from Federal Republic of Germany - Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs

 

THE YEAR OF REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS

By Sonja Biserko

The year 2009 will...   More >>>

 

SERBIA: BRIEFING TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Amnesty International Publications

Introduction
Amnesty International submits this summary of concerns for the consideration of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) in advance of its examination of Serbia's second perdiodic report on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). This submission provides information on Amnesty International's concerns about some of...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 54

ANTI-EUROPEAN BLOC GOES ON COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

January 2010

The Serbian cabinet's decision to apply for EU candidacy in late 2009 was a breakthrough in Serbia's history as a European country. The decision provoked strong, though not necessarily overt, resentment of the anti-European bloc. Apart from populist parties (DSS, SNP, SRS, NS, etc.) the bloc assembles the greatest part of the country's scholarly elite -...
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DEL PONTE'S COOPERATION WITH OFFICIAL BELGRADE COVERS ROLE OF MILOSEVIC IN WAR CRIME IN BIH?

FTV '60 minuta' , By Damir Kaletovic - '60 minuta' carries a report on alleged cooperation of former ICTY's Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte with "Belgrade regime", in order to hide a real truth of role of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in aggression on BiH. Editor announces that the magazine will be reporting about this issue in its following editions, and notes that the...   More >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATION ::: PUBLICATION

HELSINKI FILES No. 27

Vojvodina's Multiethnic Identity: Challenges in 2007-08

Edited by Pavel Domonji

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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights finalized this September the complex, 18-month project "Fostering Vojvodina's Multiethnic Identity." The project, realized with the assistance of the European Commission - EIDHR, was meant to promote intercultural and

interethnic understanding, strengthen the role of the civil society in conflict prevention and...

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REPORTS

HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY
AND - VIOLENCE

Serbia 2008

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The trend of institutional disintegration continued in 2008 in parallel with economic standstill, all of which negatively affected citizens' mood. The pro-European coalition that won the spring 2008 election failed to meet their expectations as it was

not politically courageous enough to make a breakthrough in fundamental reforms. In the meantime Serbia, like all other countries in...

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REPORTS

WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED IN 2008

IIn setting our priorities for 2008 we were aware that any serious concern with human rights in Serbia presupposed continued observation and analysis of the developments, tendencies and factors influencing the country's reformist potential and democratic transition, "standardization" of public life, response to transitional justice, major decision-makers' readiness to take it towards Euro-Atlantic integration and the society's prevalent mindset, including that towards any otherness (ethnic, political, religious, etc.). This was the context in which, throughout 2008, our Committee was cooperating with various donors in thematic projects that reflected the organization's overall mission and strategy. To start...

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THE SERBIAN NATIONALISTS ARE INTERESTED NOT IN KOSOVO BUT IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Author: Sonja Biserko, interviewed by Dani

Uploaded: Thursday, 23 October, 2008

Extensive interview with the president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, in the context of the recent violent witch-hunt against the Committee and herself in the Serbian media. The ongoing campaign being waged against the president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Sonja Biserko, by the Serbian patriotic media, journalists, writers and intellectuals would indeed be incomplete had not Milorad Ulemak Legija joined in with a letter from the Central Prison. Condemned for the abduction and murder of (former Serbian president] Ivan Stambolic...

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BRIEFLY NOTED: BRAMMERTZ SLAMS SERBIAN TRIBUNAL COOPERATION

Chief prosecutor said there has been no notable progress in delivering remaining suspects to Hague.

By Simon Jennings in The Hague

Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz criticised Serbian cooperation with the...

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Srebrenica and the London Bombings

THE 'ANTI-WAR' LINK

By Marko Attila Hoare
23rd July 2005

At Srebrenica on 11 July 1995, Christian Serb fascists - Chetniks - massacred about eight thousand Muslim men and boys. A few days before the tenth anniversary of the massacre...

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PEOPLE'S RADICAL PARTY

The Origins of the Ideology of Social, National and Political Unity of the Serb People

Latinka Perovic

The People's Radical Party is among the landmarks of Serbia's modern history. It emanates social and national collectivism of the Serb people. The former relies on patriarchal institutions...

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HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOLS

www.humanrightschools.org

Children are not born xenophobic, intolerant of others and those considered different, children are not born as...

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BOSNIA: NEW ROW OVER ICJ RULING

Last year's International Court of Justice ruling provokes political disagreement in Bosnia.

By IWPR and RFE staff in Sarajevo and Belgrade

Bosnian victims of the 1990s Balkans wars welcomed last year's ICJ ruling that Serbia was guilty of failing to punish the...

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