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PEOPLE
ON THE MARGINS (part 4)
Social care institutions catering for children and adults with mental
disabilities and persons with mental disorders
Belgrade, September 2009
The third report stemming from the project "Social Care
Institutions in Serbia: Support to a Reform-Oriented Strategy" - the Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights has realized with the assistance of the Open Society
Institute...
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PEOPLE
ON THE MARGINS (part 3)
Social care institutions catering for children and youth without
parental care, and for children and youth with social behavior disorders
Belgrade, September 2009
The report on the situation of social care institutions catering for
children and youth without parental care and those with social behavior disorders
occupies, for many reasons, a central place...
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TORTURE
PRISONS
IN SERBIA
April 2004 - April 2005
06/30/2005 , HCHRS
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 to the assistance of the European Commission - European Initiative
for Democracy and Human Rights. Apart from the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
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TORTURE
PRISONS
IN SERBIA
April 2003 - April 2004
05/10/2004
The current legislation does not provide that non-governmental
organizations may visit institutions accommodating persons deprived of their liberty.
Among other things, this is to be ascribed to non-existent law on non-governmental
organizations. Given that it was not possible to formalize the necessary relationship with
the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, the Helsinki Committee established
informal ties with the Central Prison Administration, the authorized... Acrobat PDF (780kb)
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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...
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ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOTHING NEW IN SERBIA
Belgrade, December 20, 2009
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia strongly condemns all
manifestations of anti-Semitism and demands governmental authorities to act by the law
prohibiting spread of racial, national and religious hatred. Governmental authorities are
also duty-bound to have courses on Holocaust incorporated into Serbia's
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HUMAN RIGHTS ARE THE HIGHEST FORM OF REALISM
By John McCain,
Financial Times
November 8 2009.
Two decades ago on Monday, the world watched in awe as Germans poured
by the millions into the streets of Berlin, both east and west. They tore down one of
history's great monuments of human enslavement, and in so doing, the German people not
only reunited with their fellow brothers and sisters after 28 painful years...
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Roma Virtual Network - romale@zahav.net.il
WHAT IS THE EU PLATFORM FOR ROMA INCLUSION?
Source: European Commission
28th September 2009
The Platform is an open and flexible mechanism of governance organised
by the Commission and the EU Presidency at the request of the Council in which key actors
- EU institutions, national governments, international organisations, NGOs...
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY VIOLATION
Early Warning
Newsletter No. 43
08 September 2009
Does the new Infomation Law abolish media freedom in Serbia?
At its Aug. 31, 2009 session, the People's Assembly of the Republic of
Serbia passed the amended Law on public Information (hereinafter: LoPI) whose provisions
provoked much turmoil in the public even before its adoption. It also caused...
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REASONS FOR THE CURRENT UPSURGE IN MEMORY
Pierre Nora
Over the last quarter century, every country, every social, ethnic or
family group, has undergone a profound change in the relationship it traditionally enjoyed
with the past. Pierre Nora looks at where this "memorialism" came from and why.
We are witnessing a world-wide upsurge in memory. Over the last twenty or twenty-five
years, every country, every...
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THE FETTERS OF VICTORY
Lev Gudkov
How the war provides Russia with its identity
Victory in the "Great Patriotic War" is the most potent symbol of identification
in present-day Russia, and the sole prop for national self-belief. Victory legitimated
Soviet totalitarianism; now, the more the memory of Stalinist repression fades, the more
public opinion turns in the dictator's favour. The commemora...
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Eurozine Editorial
EUROPEAN HISTORIES: TOWARDS A GRAND NARRATIVE?
Introduction
The western political representatives who met Putin in Moscow on 9 May to celebrate the
sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II were confronted by a version of history
very different from their own. The event highlighted the way in which the comfortable
historical consensus long obtained within and...
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STATE VISITS
Internationalized commemoration of WWII in Russia and Germany
Andreas Langenohl
Commemoration ceremonies in 2004 and 2005 have shown that the
internationalization of remembrance of World War II is well underway. However, it takes
place within a framework of national memorial cultures. The Russian and the German
reactions to the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day in Normandy...
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HOLOCAUST: THE IGNORED REALITY
Timothy Snyder
If we concentrate on Auschwitz and the Gulag - generally taken to be
adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter - we fail to notice that over
a period of twelve years, between 1933 and 1944, some 12 million victims of Nazi and
Soviet mass killing policies perished in a particular region of Europe, one defined more
or less by today's Belarus, Ukraine...
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
- PRESS RELEASE
SERBIA: HUMAN RIGHTS
DEFENDERS UNDER THREAT
14 September 2009
Human rights defenders are under attack in Serbia and the authorities
are failing to protect them, Amnesty International said in a briefing published today.
"Physical attacks and threats to the lives and property of human rights activists are
seldom promptly and impartially investigated... More >>> |
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UN COMMITTEE FINDS SERBIA VIOLATED TORTURE CONVENTION
Geneva, 24 July 2009
The UN Committee Against Torture (the Committee) has considered the
case of violence and racial abuse against a Romani man and as of 8 May 2009 issued a
decision finding Serbia to have been in violation of a number of provisions of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CAT). Besim Osmani was jointly represented... More >>> |
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RECENTS NEWS ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR
THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES
Serbia: early publication of the 2nd cycle opinion
25. June 2009
The Opinion of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) on Serbia has been
made public by the Government. The Advisory Committee adopted this Opinion in March
2009... More >>> |
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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...
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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...
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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... More >>> |
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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...
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