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PRESS RELEASE & H. BULLETIN

STOP DISINTEGRATION OF THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

January 28, 2012

PROJECTS | MONITORING THE...

Penitentiary-Reformatory for Women in Požarevac

MONITORING OF THE PRISON SYSTEM REFORM

Belgrade, October 2011

IN FOCUS

Meeting Declaration

REGIONAL WOMEN'S LOBBY FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND JUSTICE IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

Istanbul, Turkey, 9-10 December 2011

PROJECTS

The eighth lecture

SCHOOL OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACEFUL RESOLUTI...

November 12, 2011

PROJECTS | PROMOTING A SOCIAL...

The second seminar

BIDDING WITH THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS AND DENIAL OF GENOCIDE: AN ONGOING GOVERNMENTAL POLICY

Novi Sad, November 26, 2011.

PROJECTS | PROMOTING A SOCIAL...

Public debate

THE END OF THE MYTH OF KOSOVO

Belgrade, November 25, 2011.

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHES

HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL FOR YOUTH

Kovacica, January 2012

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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a Human Rights School for Youth (The School) between January 20 and January 26, 2012 at hotel Relax in Kovacica. Forty secondary school students who were chosen from 125 applicants, came to Kovacica from secondary schools in Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Nis, Sivac, Senta, Zajecar, Cacak, Kragujevac, Uzice, Pozega, Ruma, Petrovaradin, Knjazevac, and Kraljevo. The aim of... More >>>

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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 85

EU CANDIDACY POSTPONED: A TEST FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY

December 2011

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 84

RADICAL GROUPS IN THE BALKANS: THE CASE OF WAHHABI JAŠAREVIĆ

November 2011

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 83

A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SOCIAL TOPICS

Helsinki Committee in the Period August-November 2011

HELSINKI CHARTER

HELSINKI CHARTER No. 157-158

November - December 2011

This issue of the Helsinki Charter has been financed by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights

C o n t e n t s : : :

Editorial

SERBIA WITHOUT A CANDIDACY:
STICKING TO LONGTIME GOALS

By Sonja Biserko

Serbia's political class seemed not distressed at all by the postponed EU candidacy: they behaved as if they had been looking forward to it in the first place. Encouraged by the global crisis, especially the one in Europe, Serb national strategists thought the time... More >>>

PROJECTS

SCHOOL OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS

OSCE and Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad University

September - December 2011

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The eighth lecture, 11/12/11

The sixth lecture, 10/29/11

The fourth lecture, 10/15/11

The second lecture, 10/1/11

The seventh lecture, 11/5/11

The fifth lecture, 10/22/11

The third lecture, 10/8/11

The first lecture, 9/24/11

With the assistance of OSCE and in cooperation with the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad University, the Helsinki... More >>>

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	IN FOCUS THE ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY SERVICE IS A MORAL OBLIGATION OF THE SERBIAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP November 30, 2011

	PRESS RELEASE & H. BULLETIN CONTINUOUS TENSION IN SOUTH SERBIA Belgrade, November 22, 2011

	EU TURNABOUT - SERBIA IN EUROPE, EUROPE IN SERBIA November, 2011 Signatories (15kb) >>>

	PROJECTS \| PROMOTING A SOCIAL CLIMATE... Public debate CRUCIAL MOMENT FOR SERBIA Smederevo, October 25, 2011

	IN FOCUS ARCHIVES SONJA BISERKO DECLARED HONORARY CITIZEN OF SARAJEVO Sarajevo, April 6, 2011 At the ceremony marking the Day of Sarajevo Major Alija Behman conferred "Honorary Citizen" Award on Sonja Biserko, chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. The City Council decision of the award... More >>>

	EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHES HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL FOR YOUTH Kovacica, January 2012 Acrobat PDF (72kb) >>> Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a Human Rights School for Youth (The School) between January 20 and January 26, 2012 at hotel Relax in Kovacica. Forty secondary school students who were chosen from 125 applicants, came to Kovacica from secondary schools in Novi Pazar... More >>>

	IN FOCUS ARCHIVES A NEW STRATEGY FOR THE CIVIL SOCIETY Sonja Biserko, Miljenko Dereta Belgrade, February 2011 The dead end Serbia is facing once more is grounds for serious concern, primarily in terms of maintaining the achieved minimum of democratization, as well as regarding the continuation of the politics of EU accession... MS Word (37kb) >>>

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

THE YEAR WHEN SERBIA CHARTED ITS
EUROPEAN COURSE

Europeanization - Accomplishments and Limitations

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This is the tenth in a row annual report of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia scrutinizing the overall political and socioeconomic context that considerably determines the quality of human rights, as mirrors of all societies and reliable

indicators of the value systems on which they rest. The Serbian society is still heavily laden by the legacy of the recent past. It has not...

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PUBLICATION ::: HELSINKI FILES

HELSINKI FILES No. 29

Sandzak and European Prospects

Sandzak and European Prospects is a publication stemming from the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests" realized in 2009-2010 with the assistance of the

Delegation of the European Union - EIDHR. The Helsinki Committee has been monitoring the situation of human rights in Sandzak for years. Recent developments in and about Sandzak and each and every regime's...

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PUBLICATION ::: CHRONICLES

CHRONICLES 33

Conflict in Numbers

Edited by Ewa Tabeau

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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 persons

from the fall of Srebrenica in 1995 and presented in the General KRSTIC case (IT-98-33). It was authored by two...

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

Author: Sonja Biserko, interviewed by Dani

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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, the assassination of (Serbian prime...

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