PRESS RELEASE
Darmstadt, 7 December 2002
12/26/2002, Author: HCHRS
Without any commitment to specific political targets or obligations,
over 40 scholars and experts from Israel, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, the United States and Germany met
from the 5th to 7th December at the Haus der Deutsch-Balten (House of the German Balts) in
Darmstadt for an international academic colloquium "A EUROPEAN CENTRE AGAINST
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LETTER TO VLADAN BATIC, MINISTER OF JUSTICE, REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 22 January, 2002
08/11/2002, Author: HCHRS
Dear Mr. Batic: It has been five years now that the Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights has been engaged in the project to assist the refugees from the Republic
of Croatia. The assistance includes the Committee's mediation in securing personal
documents to the refugees from Croatia. The fact that registers of births, marriages and
deaths have been destroyed in a number of... More >>> |
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IX REFUGEES
08/11/2002, Source: Annual Report 2000, Author: HCHRS
The refugee issue, one of key moral and political issues of Serbia
instead of being tackled, is constantly sidelined. The Yugoslav authorities in the past 10
years did not show any understanding for problems of refugees, except when concern over
their fate served their political purposes and- promotions. A false picture was created of
bearable life of refugees. This was intended to boost their hopes that "better life
is just around the corner" and to dissuade them from returning to... More >>> |
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STATUS OF REFUGEES IN SERBIA
09/04/2002, Source: Annual Report - 2001, Author: HCHRS
Issue of refugees, one of the key moral, political and economic topics
in Serbia, continues to be sidelined. One gets the impression that the new authorities,
like the former regime, use refugees only to further their own ends or for promotional
purposes. Status of refugees in Serbia after DOS installation has not improved much,
despite authorities' pledges that refugees would become a top priority/concern of the
state and society. It was moreover... More >>> |
