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REGIONAL
WOMEN'S LOBBY FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND JUSTICE IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
Meeting Declaration
Istanbul, Turkey, 9-10 December 2011 |
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Regional Women's Lobby for
Peace, Security and Justice in Southeast Europe (RWL SEE) held the strategic meeting of
the Steering Committee of the RWL in Istanbul from 8 to 11 December 2011. The main topics
were: the security situation in the region, strengthening of women in the Euro-Atlantic
integration processes and strategic development of...
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DELIVERED TO THE JOINT COMMITTEE FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
by Jelena Milic, Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, Serbia
September 29, 2011 |
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I would like to thank
Chairman Deputy Costello, the members of the Joint Committee, and the Committee staff for
inviting me to speak today on Serbia and its preparedness for EU candidate status. I would
also like to thank the Ad Hoc International Coalition for the Arrest of Ratko...
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EMERGING FROM THE MARGINS
Constructing creative and useful approaches to both former Ottoman
peripheries - the Balkans and the Middle East - requires shedding tattered notions of
Western "leadership" and recognizing opportunities inherent in the
acknowledgement of one's own limits.
By David B. Kanin |
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The terms "Balkan"
and "Middle East" connote the great unsettled peripheries of the Ottoman Empire.
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DANIEL SERWER
Interviewed by Snezana Congradin, Matja Stojanovic
June 2011 |
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Helsinki Charter: In your
opinion, the EU should not help Boris Tadic and his Democratic Party win the next
elections, due soon. You also said that the EU should take a firmer stance, continue its
policy of conditionality and insist on meeting the criteria, no matter who ruled in
Serbia. Does this mean that the...
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SONJA BISERKO DECLARED HONORARY CITIZEN OF SARAJEVO
Sarajevo, April 6, 2011 |
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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, read out last evening in the National Theater... More >>> |
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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. The unexpectedly long lasting
economic crisis has revealed all weaknesses - political, economic and social with regards
to the existing system which has not made a crucial break...
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ACTIVIST RECEIVES NORWEGIAN AWARD
The Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Serbia presented Sonja
Biserko with the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Award.
Belgrade, Tanjug, 9 November 2010 |
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THE BALKANS CAN STILL BE LOST
By Soren Jessen-Petersen and Daniel Serwer
The New York Times, 10 November, 2010
As NATO, the United States, the European Union and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe prepare for summit meetings this fall, the Balkans may
yet spoil the party. The peace-building process there boasts remarkable successes - the
end of the Bosnian war, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and the rise of democratic Serbia,
the...
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YUGOSLAV PARTISANS SAVED 795 ALLIED AIRMEN IN
WORLD WAR II
By Yahalom Kashny
3 November , 2010
Operation Halyard was one of the largest Allied airlift operation
behind enemy lines of World War II. The Yugoslav Partisans played a major role in saving
downed Allied airmen. Serbian nationalists often claim that Chetniks saved over 500 downed
airmed, but that figure is simply wrong. According to statistics compiled by the US Air
Force Air Crew Rescue Unit, between 1...
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http://greatersurbiton.
wordpress.com/2010/09/24/
the-chetniks-and-the-jews/
THE CHETNIKS
AND THE JEWS
by Marko Attila Hoare
24 September 2010
Last week, the Serbian daily Blic published another contribution to the
long-running efforts of anti-Communist Serb nationalists to rehabilitate the
Nazi-collaborationalist Serbian Chetnik movement of World War II. Such efforts represent
an affront to the Serbian anti-fascist heritage and to all those who survived the...
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REHABILITATION OF DRAZA MIHAILOVIC REVISES HISTORY
Press release
20 September, 2010
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia warns that a judicial
rehabilitation of Draza Mihailovic would equal a revision of the World War II and Serbia's
attitude towards anti-fascism. It would not only politically revaluate collaborationism of
the Tchetnik movement but also further promote the Greater Serbia project this movement
had staunchly advocated. Besides... More >>> |
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NO BALKAN MOSAIC
CAN BE COMPLETE
WITHOUT BOSNIA
By Sonja Biserko
The Srebrenica genocide is and will remain an enduring trauma for all
generations in Serbia, both present and future. Each new judgment passed by the Hague
tribunal reveals new details and lays bare the enormity of the crime. Although 15 years
have passed since the atrocity, social consciousness in Serbia remains largely unchanged.
Criticism of selective memory as a prerequisite for reconciliation... More >>> |
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IN MEMORIAM
INTERVIEW WITH BOGDAN BOGDANOVIÆ
Bogdan Bogdanovic was born in 1922 in Belgrade. He was involved in the
Yugoslav resistance from 1941. During his long post-war career, Bogdanovia was
commissioned by Tito as architect of more than 20 monuments to the victims of war and
fascism. Among his major works, Jasenovac's Flower of Stone and the Vukovar memorial
(destroyed during the Serb-Croat conflict) were recognised internationally. As well as...
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17/what-is-living-and-what-
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The New York Review of Books
WHAT
IS LIVING AND WHAT IS DEAD IN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY?
By Tony Judt
17 december 2009
Americans would like things to be better. According to public opinion
surveys in recent years, everyone would like their child to have improved life chances at
birth. They would prefer it if their wife or daughter had the...
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world/europe/displayStory.
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Failed Balkans summitry Shan't!
SERBIA RUINS AN
ATTEMPT AT WESTERN BALKAN UNITY
Mar 21st 2010 | From The Economist online
BRDO castle, in the middle of Slovenia, has played host to a number of
important events in recent Balkan history. In 1980, Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia's leader,
suffered a stroke there and died soon afterwards. In April 1991, the leaders of the six
constituent... More
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THE WEIMAR DECLARATION
Urgent Appeal to the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights, and the Governments and World Public to protect victims of human rights
violations and their defenders.
We the Defenders of Human Rights and recipients of the prestigious
Human Right Award of the City of Weimar together with the participants of the
International Conference on Human Rights 'Between Ideal and Reality', on this 61th year
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights call on the United Nations
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH
Barack Obama
10. december 2009.
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the
Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to
our highest aspirations - that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not
mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can...
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EUROPEANISING A
RELUCTANT LEARNER?
European identity in the EU's representations of Serbia
A.G.M.J. Rongen
Amsterdam, 1 October 2009
Identity politics have long been a domain that mainly drew the
attention of sociologists or anthropologists, remaining a rather peripheral area of
scholarship to political scientists. Nevertheless, since the rise of constructivism in the
latter discipline, identity has been established as an object of analysis in the...
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SCANDALOUS ROW OVER NUMBER
OF VICTIMS
Author, Vuk Bakanovic
"Dani", 23 October 2009
On 17 October on premises of the Evropa hotel in Sarajevo, a promotion
of the book War in numbers: Demographic losses in wars on the territory of former
Yugoslavia 1991-1999, edited by Ewa Tabeau and published by Serbia Helsinki Committee,
took place. It is mostly about main reports by demographic experts, who were engaged by
the prosecution in trials...
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OPEN LETTER To Noam
Chomsky and Amnesty International (AI) On the occasion of the Annual Amnesty International
Lecture being given today, Friday, in Belfast
YOU ARE A GENOCIDE DENIER, PROFESSOR CHOMSKY!
Göttingen/Belfast, 30 October 2009
Dear Professor Chomsky,
Dear Friends of Amnesty International,
Once again you find yourself invited to appear in a public forum, this time in Belfast. In
the past, Belfast was a city with a long-standing reputation for discrimination against
the Catholic population, but...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/
Interview_With_Historian_
Tony_Judt_Dreaming_About_
Washington_Is_One_Of_East_
Europes_Great_Mistakes/
1841206.html
INTERVIEW WITH
HISTORIAN TONY JUDT: 'DREAMING ABOUT WASHINGTON IS ONE OF EAST EUROPE'S GREAT MISTAKES'
Historian Tony Judt says ''Washington is not about to run to [East
Europe's] rescue against Russia.''
October 01, 2009.
The future of the EU, Russia's relations with Europe, the course of
American foreign policy. All have dominated headlines in recent weeks, and all are issues
that renowned...
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Conference: "Twenty
Years After the Breakdown of Communism in CEE: Promises, Meanings and Implications of
1989..."
University of Fribourg, Suisse
MEANINGS OF
FREEDOM IN THE BALKANS
Sonja Biserko
September 25, 2009
Introduction
An attempt to define the meanings of freedom is a difficult challenge for anyone coming
from the Balkans, in particular from the former Yugoslavia. Today I will focus on the
social and political landscape that emerged...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
15 July 2009.
by Valdas Adamkus, Martin Butora, Emil Constantinescu, Pavol Demes,
Lubos Dobrovsky, Matyas Eorsi, Istvan Gyarmati, Vaclav Havel, Rastislav Kacer, Sandra
Kalniete, Karel Schwarzenberg, Michal Kovac, Ivan Krastev, Alexander Kwasniewski, Mart
Laar, Kadri Liik, Janos Martonyi. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Adam Rotfeld, Vaira Vike-Freiberga,
Alexandr Vondra, Lech Walesa.
We have written this letter...
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THE YUGOSPHERE
By Tim Judah
02 June 2009
Tim Judah examines the overlapping connections between the nation
states of the former Yugoslavia. They say that "no news is good news." But for
the western Balkans this is not true. Preoccupied with the world financial crisis,
Afghanistan, Iraq or widespread corruption (ie., British members of parliament,) it is not
surprising that this region gets precious little coverage in the outside world, but as
a... More >>> |
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY VIOLATION
Early Warning
Newsletter No. 39
03 June 2009
Vecernje novosti, a high-circulation daily which belongs to
strategically important national media and serves as a mouthpiece of the Government,
carried Sunday, May 31 a two-page (pp. 6 and 7) Topic of the Day file under the caption
WHY ARE CERTAIN NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ATTEMPTING TO INFLICT...
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THE RACIST CASE FOR PARTITION
by Marko Attila Hoare
05 June 2009
Montgomery
William Montgomery, former US ambassador to Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro and
former advisor to President Clinton on Bosnia, has an article in today's International
Herald Tribune, arguing for the partition of Kosova and Bosnia:
In both Kosovo and Bosnia, we need to consider different solutions -
ones which we may.... More
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U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SPEAKS AT CAIRO
UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
04 June 2009.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I am honored to
be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For
over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning; and for over a
century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. And together, you
represent the harmony between...
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SERBIA GRINDS TO A HALT
Vladimir Gligorov
Pe¹canik (B92), 26 December 2008; Bosnian Institute, 24 January
2009
Article translated from the Pe¹canik [Hourglass] programme of
Belgrade's Radio B92 argues that the Serbian government, instead of following the pro-EU
mandate given it at the last elections, is following instead a disastrous policy of
continuity with its predecessors
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BALKAN TROUBLES
The West ended the war in the region, now it's time to secure the
peace.
By Morton Abramowitz and Daniel Serwer
Wall Street Journal Europe, 7 January 2009
Bosnia and Kosovo have largely disappeared from public view. Washington
and Brussels are hoping the promise of European Union accession will ultimately triumph
over remaining ethnic tensions in the region. Would that this were so. Rather, a divided
EU is allowing the Balkans to slide toward greater... More >>> |
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LATINKA PEROVIC HONOURED ON HER 75th BIRTHDAY
Bojan Toncic, e-novine.com, 7 Novembar 2008. Bosnian Institute, 11
November, 2008
Report translated from the Belgrade-based e-novine website that
highlights the pre-eminent role that Latinka Perovic has come to play for the critical,
democratic opposition in Serbia
On Friday 7 November in Belgrade, the historian and long-term political
activist celebrated her 75th birthday, in the presence of numerous... More >>> |
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NEWSLETTER No.1
HATE
SPEECH IN SERBIA
Attacks against Sonja Biserko as a classic example of hate speech
against female human rights defenders
24 November 2008
In today's modern world, hate speech and acts of hate stand for the
promoting, glorifying or justifying crimes committed against social groups or their
members because of their race, skin color, religion, national, i.e. ethnic background,
gender, sexual orientation...
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