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Case Concerning
Application of the
Convention on the
Prevention and
Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide
CROATIA v. SERBIA
International Court
of Justice
3 February 2015
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Historical and factual background. Break-up
of
the SFRY and emergence...
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EUROPE’S JIHADI
GENERATION
Javier Solana
Madrid, January 27, 2015
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He came from Algeria seeking a better life,
anticipating an escape from poverty, oppression, and hopelessness.
In Paris, he found a low-skill job and had children and
grandchildren. As French citizens, they had the right to an
education...
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PARLIAMENTARY
ASSEMBLY OF THE
COUNCIL
OF EUROPE
President Ann Brasseur
Belgrade, 23 January 2015
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Madam President,
Members of the
Parliamentary Assembly, It came recently to our
attention that the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe put on its
agenda election of judges to the European
Court of...
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FEEDING THE DELUSION
OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
By Sonja Biserko
January 17-18, 2015, Danas
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Serbia is a central country
in the Balkans under
the heavy mortgage of wars:
not only has it failed to overcome it
but has not distanced itself yet from its strategic goals. This is
why Serbia has no a clearly defined public foreign
policy. This...
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NOBEL LECTURE
BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Oslo, 10 December 2014.
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Your Majesties, Your royal highnesses,
distinguished members of the Norweigan Nobel Committee,
Dear
sisters and brothers, today is a day of great happiness for me.
I am humbled that the Nobel Committee has selected me for this
precious award. Thank you to everyone for...
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European Commission -
Statement
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT
BY MINISTERS AND
REPRESENTATIVES OF
AUSTRIA, BULGARIA,
CROATIA, GREECE, ITALY,
ROMANIA AND SLOVENIA
AND VP ŠEFČOVIČ
Brussels,
9 December 2014
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Today representatives of Austria, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovenia (hereinafter as...
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ROUND TABLE
“RESISTANCE TO
EXTREMISM”
Belgrade, November 12, 2014
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
hosted the round table “Resistance to Extremism” in Belgrade’s “Aero
Club.” Chairman of the Human
and Minority Rights and Gender Equality
Committee Meho Omerovic, commissioner for the Protection of...
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THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
FOR 2014
Oslo, 10 October 2014
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided
that the
Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and
Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the
suppression of
children
and young people and for the right of all children to
education...
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ROUNDTABLE IN NOVI SAD
October 2, 2014
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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
organized a roundtable on the topic “(In)tolerance in Vojvodina” in
the Assembly of the Autonomous
Province of Vojvodina.
President of
the Committee on European Integration
and International
Cooperation
of the
Assembly of...
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EU AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN
SERBIA
September 2014 |
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Serbia is once again at the crossroads that call
for the engagement of the entire society. The steps the government
has been
taking towards EU
accession do not suffice,
the more so
since the government itself is not unanimous. And this is
most
evident in the implementation of the
Brussels...
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CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS
WITH CSOs IN
VOJVODINA
July 18, 2014 |
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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
organized three
consultative meetings with CSOs in Vojvodina over the past two
weeks. The
meeting in Subotica of 7
July 2014 at the Open University addressed extremism vs.
political pluralism in the multiethnic province of Vojvodina.
Politicologist...
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MEETING WITH NGOs AT
THE HUMAN RIGHTS
HOUSE
Belgrade, July 15, 2014 |
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International network of civil society
organizations Civic Solidarity Platform held a one-day seminar and
working meeting in cooperation with Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) at
the Human Rights House
on 15 July...
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Southern Connecticut
State University
LETTER TO ICTY
PRESIDENT MERON
June 27, 2014
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Dear President Meron: I am writing to you to
express a grave concern about the
ICTY’s prosecution of Mr.
Radovan Karadžić,
particularly regarding the removal of Višegrad
and other municipalities from
the indictment...
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The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
2014-1914 (1878)
Case Study
June 27, 2014. |
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"For decades a war of interpretations has been
waged across this region.
In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
with
numerous special
interests, it is easy to
overlook the
simplicity of
the truth - which is clear
when you...
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SARAJEVO PEACE EVENT
Sonja Biserko
June, 2014 |
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Dear Friends,
I feel privileged to have been invited to address this
Conference. This year the 100th anniversary of WWI is being
marked in Europe
and worldwide. Many books have been published
to throw light, from a variety
of angles, on international
constellation of that era....
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Project “Be the Change – Make a Difference”
BOOK LAUNCH OF
“I WASN'T HOWLING
WITH WOLVES”
Photo: MC & CZKD
Belgrade, June 2, 2014
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Tomislav Jakic, a famous Croatian journalist and
foreign policy advisor to the former President of Croatia, Stjepan
Mesic, visited Belgrade on June 2, 2014, in order to...
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THE SOONER, THE
BETTER
By Daniel Serwer
28 April 2014 |
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With Aleksandar Vučić
confirmed as prime
minister
of Serbia on the wave of a strong
parliamentary election
result last
month,
questions arise about what the new government should do about
Kosovo. On the well-founded principle of doing big but...
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Project “Be the Change –
Make a Difference”
PROMOTION OF
THE BOOK BY MICHAEL
LAPSLEY
Belgrade, 10 April 2014 |
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Anglican priest from New Zealand and author of the
book “Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to
Healer”, Michael Lapsley, visited Belgrade
on 10 April 2014. His
visit made a part of...
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STATEMENT OF SONJA
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I. Introduction
1. I have been asked by the Croatian legal team to provide a
statement which will bear light on the
Serbian national program which was the main trigger for the war in
the former Yugoslavia. 2. I am the
founder and President of
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgra...
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ANTI-FASCIST MANIFESTO
Belgrade, October 17, 2013 |
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Half a century ago when
ex-Yugoslavia dissolved
the Serbian society found itself at crossroads: to take the road of
anti-fascism,
democracy, cooperation
and peace or the one of
nationalism, leading
towards rehabilitation of the Tchetnik
Movement, revival of the Greater Serbia
project, intolerance and
war. With...
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SRDJA POPOVIC, 76,
CHAMPION OF RIGHTS,
DIES
By William Yardley
The New York Times,
November 2, 2013
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Srdja Popovic, a Serbian lawyer and
celebrated human rights advocate who pressed for reform and free
speech for five decades, first under Communist rule in the
former Yugoslavia and later under the
strongman...
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Interview: Latinka Perović
IRRATIONALITY IS OUR SECOND NATURE
Tamara Nikčević
July 18, 2013, Vreme |
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The historian, says
historian Latinka Perović,
first identifies processes
and then follows them be they or not
perceived as socially undesirable...
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THE SECRET HISTORY
OF YUGOSLAVIA
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
April 5, 2013 |
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In the 6th century, in the Byzantine capital
of Constantinople, the historian Procopius penned an account of
the misdeeds of the emperor...
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INTERVIEW WITH
DAVID L. PHILLIPS
Dnevni Avaz, Daily Newspaper, Sarajevo
June 23, 2012
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Q:
Mr. Phillips, allow me to go a bit into history. This August is
going to be the 20 year anniversary of the London Conference on
Former Yugoslavia, and there is a well-known episode with... More >>> |
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Czech Helsinki Committee
EMPLOYMENT OF
FOREIGNERS AT RADIO
FREE EUROPE
Prague, 4 June 2012 |
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Czech Helsinki Committee criticizes the ongoing practice of
Radio Free Europe which offers to job applicants the employment
agreements containing discriminative and
deceptive...
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HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT:
SERBIA
April 8, 2011 |
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The
Republic of Serbia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with
approximately 7.5 million inhabitants. Boris Tadic
was reelected
president in February 2008. In May 2008 voters elected a new...
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SERBIA SHOWS ITS
ANTI-EUROPEAN SIDE
By David L. Phillips |
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Serbia's arbitrary arrest of Albanians from Kosovo traveling on
its territory not only violates its legal commitments to
guarantee freedom of movement for foreign nationals, including
Kosovo Albanians. It also reveals the ugly side of...
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