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THE KIM REGIME'S
ATROCITIES, AND
THE ROAD AHEAD

Carl Gershman

Last month marked the
one-year anniversary of the report of the UN Human Rights Council’s
Commission of Inquiry
(COI) on human rights in North Korea. UN reports
often have very limited
impact and...   More >>>

 

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

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

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...   More >>>

 

PARLIAMENTARY
ASSEMBLY OF THE
COUNCIL OF EUROPE

President Ann Brasseur

Belgrade, 23 January 2015

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...   More >>>

 

FEEDING THE DELUSION
OF SELF-IMPORTANCE

By Sonja Biserko

January 17-18, 2015, Danas

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...   More >>>

 

CHARLIE HEBDO
MURDERS INCREASE
PPRESSURES ON
EUROPEAN
GOVERNMENTS FOR
ACTIONS TO PREVENT
ATTACKS ON
JOURNALISTS

January 15, 2015

Last week’s massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine and the other terrorist murders which left a total of 17 dead in France have
given new...   More >>>

 

NOBEL LECTURE
BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Oslo, 10 December 2014.

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...   More >>>

 

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

Today representatives of Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovenia (hereinafter as...
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Democratization Policy
Council

RETREAT FOR PROGRESS
IN BiH? - THE GERMAN-
BRITISH INITIATIVE

By Kurt Bassuener,
Toby Vogel, Valery Perry
and Bodo Weber

November 2014

On the heels of the October general elections, representatives of Germany and the United Kingdom announced a new initiative to engage with Bosnia...
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Democratization Policy
Council

THE WESTERN BALKANS
AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS
- A CHANGE GAME FOR
EU AND US POLICIES?

By Bodo Weber and
Kurt Bassuener

September 2014

Well before the ongoing Ukraine crisis began in late 2013, Russia had asserted itself in the Western
Balkans politically, often...
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PUTIN'S REACH: MERKEL
CONCERNED ABOUT
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN
THE BALKANS

By SPIEGEL Staff

November 17, 2014

It is a fundamental principle of German foreign policy that talks are the best way to solve diplomatic
problems. Such was the rationale behind Gernot Erler's recent trip to
Moscow to speak with...
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ROUND TABLE
“RESISTANCE TO
EXTREMISM”

Belgrade, November 12, 2014

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...   More >>>

 

Press releases

SERBIA: PERPETRATORS
OF WAR CRIMES MUST
NOT BE ALLOWED TO
ESCAPE JUSTICE

Amnesty International

4 November 2014

The Serbian government must strengthen measures to tackle continuing
impunity for crimes under international law – war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide – committed by...   More >>>

 

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
FOR 2014

Oslo, 10 October 2014

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...   More >>>

 

ROUNDTABLE IN NOVI SAD

October 2, 2014

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...   More >>>

 

Convened by The Regional
Women’s Lobby for Peace,
Security and Justice in South
East Europe (RWL SEE)

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “ON THE
ROAD TO EMPOWERING
WOMEN IN POLITICS,
PEACE PROCESSES AND
EU INTEGRATION”

Saranda Declaration

Saranda, Albania,
September 18-19, 2014

More than 70 prominent
women...   More >>>

 

JAPANESE
GOVERNMENT HELD
THE INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
INCLUDING ABDUCTIONS
BY NORTH KOREA IN
GENEVA

Geneva, 10 September 2014

Human rights violations
and North Korea’s:
Abductions – Time... >>>

United Nations, Former
COI on DPRK, Informal
meeting of former... >>>

Dear President Meron: I am writing to you...   More >>>

 

EU AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN
SERBIA

September 2014

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...   More >>>

 

CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS
WITH CSOs IN VOJVODINA

July 18, 2014

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...   More >>>

 

MEETING WITH NGOs AT
THE HUMAN RIGHTS
HOUSE

Belgrade, July 15, 2014

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...   More >>>

 

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...   More >>>

 

The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

HISTORY IN THE MAKING
2014-1914 (1878)

Case Study

June 27, 2014.

"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...   More >>>

 

ANNOUNCEMENT MASTER
CLASS ON LAW, HISTORY,
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN
THE CONTEXT OF MASS
ATROCITIES

From 30 June to 12 July 2014.

We are pleased to
announce a Master Class on Law, History, Politics
and Society in the Context of Mass Atrocities. The
Course will take place
between 30 June and 12 July at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik. Short Description: International and national criminal tribunals dealing with mass
atrocities have highlighted...
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IF THE UN DOES NOT
HOLD THE WORLD'S MOST
BRUTAL REGIME TO
ACCOUNT, THE WORLD'S
CITIZENS WILL

By Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
and Benedict Rogers

June 17, 2014.

Wicked leaders of the awful governments of oppressed countries can no longer
ignore public opinion
simply because the
'international community' -
usually the UN...   More >>>

 

Amnesty International

SERBIA ENDING IMPUNITY
FOR CRIMES UNDER
INTERNATIONAL LAW

June 2014

Over two decades have passed since the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) began
to tear itself apart in a
series of wars which lead
to the deaths of an
estimated 140,000...
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Amnesty International

SERBIA: EU ACCESSION IS
KEY TO ENDING IMPUNITY
FOR WAR CRIMES

17 June 2014

The European Union (EU) must do everything it can to ensure Serbia addresses the culture of impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, committed by Serbian police, military and paramilitary forces during the wars of the 1990s, said Amnesty International in...
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SARAJEVO PEACE EVENT

Sonja Biserko

June, 2014

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

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...   More >>>

 

 

THE OTHER SIDE:
KRISTIJAN AND SOME
OTHERS

Ratko Dmitrović

April 25 2014,
Večernje novosti

I have not one good word for Kristijan Golubovic, nor do I have any interest in his life. I have not had coffee with anyone of the type,
they had access to the media that I...   More >>>

 

THE SOONER, THE
BETTER

By Daniel Serwer

28 April 2014

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...   More >>>

 

U.N. COUNCIL TAKES UP
QUESTION OF RIGHTS
IN NORTH KOREA

By Rick Gladstone

April 17, 2014,
The New York Times

The United Nations appeared to move a step closer on Thursday to holding North Korea’s government accountable for what an investigative panel has called a history of crimes against...   More >>>

 

Project “Be the Change –
Make a Difference”

PROMOTION OF
THE BOOK BY MICHAEL
LAPSLEY

Belgrade, 10 April 2014

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...   More >>>

 

STATEMENT OF SONJA
BISERKO IN THE HAGUE

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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An urgent appeal from
non-governmental
organisations across
the OSCE region

THE OSCE SHOULD ACT
DECISIVELY AND SWIFTLY
TO STOP INTERVENTION
INTO UKRAINE AND
PREVENT A MAJOR
SECURITY CRISIS IN
EUROPE

4 March 2014

The Civic Solidarity Platform, an OSCE-wide...
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NORTH KOREA:
UN COMMISSION
DOCUMENTS
WIDE-RANGING AND
ONGOING CRIMES
AGAINST HUMANITY,
URGES REFERRAL TO ICC

Geneva, 17 February 2014

A wide array of crimes against humanity, arising from “policies established
at the highest level of State,” have been committed and continue to take place in...   More >>>

 

Professional Conference

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION
IN SERBIA

Belgrade, Jan 28-29, 2014

Recommendations to the
Serbian government
and relevant ministries
for efficient
deinstitutionalization
process >>>

On January 28-29, 2014, at the close of two compatible projects – “Strengthening NPM and Advocacy for the Rights of Institutionalized Persons” and...   More >>>

 

 

COMPLAINT TO
THE PRESS COUNCIL

25 November 2013

Since November 12, 2003 several print media in Serbia have been staging an intimidation and smear campaign against Chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Sonja Biserko, invited by the Republic of Croatia to bear witness for it in the case...
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Interview: Sonja Biserko,
chairwoman of the Helsinki
Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia

HOW AND WHY HAVE I
BEEN INVITED TO TESTIFY

Tamara Nikčević

November 21, 2013 | Vreme

These days Belgrade
tabloids have once again issued warrants for
Chairman of...   More >>>

 

 

BURN THE WITCH

Trajan Zec*

Nov 28, 2013 | pescanik.net

If we were to conduct a small survey amongst our closest friends, like-minded people, the reasonable part of this country, and ask
them what their opinion is about Sonja Biserko
testifying in the case of...
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PANEL: HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS AND
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE:
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
OF THE EVOLUTION OF
A FIELD

Anna Di Lellio, The New
School, NY

4–7 September 2013

The RECOM’s international forum on transitional justice in Sarajevo, last May, was exceptionally broad in
scope and participation...
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ANTI-FASCIST MANIFESTO

Belgrade, October 17, 2013

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...   More >>>

 

SRDJA POPOVIC, 76,
CHAMPION OF RIGHTS,
DIES

By William Yardley

The New York Times,
November 2, 2013

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...   More >>>

 

REPORT OF THE
CONFERENCE IN OSLO
"RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM
IN EUROPE"

October 23, 2013.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia participated in the two-day conference (October 8-9, 2013) on right- wing extremism at
Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway. The conference was organized...   More >>>

 

The experience of a patient – Dragan Jugovic

I CONQUERED THE
SELF-STIGMA

Ivana Milanović Hrašovec

May 30, 2013, Vreme

More... Dr. Aleksandra Bubera:
Independent Commentary
on the Article and the
Conditions >>>

I am 50 years old and have been treated as a...
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Interview: Latinka Perović

IRRATIONALITY IS OUR SECOND NATURE

Tamara Nikčević

July 18, 2013, Vreme

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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Statement for Višegrad Stražište Cemetery

TO THE MEMORY OF
THE VICTIMS OF THE
VIŠEGRAD GENOCIDE:
MAY TRUTH LEAD TO
JUSTICE

July 16, 2013.

I am placing a wreath today at the memorial in Stražište cemetery in solemn
memory of the...   More >>>

 

www.opendemocracy.net

EUROPE AND ITS
'MIDNIGHT CHILDREN'

Goran Fejic

9 July 2013

At the stroke of midnight on 30 June 2013, Croatia became the twenty-eighth member-state of the European Union. The...
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SENTENCED “FOR
IDEOLOGICAL AND
POLITICAL REASONS”?
THE REHABILITATION OF
DRAGOLJUB “DRAŽA”
MIHAILOVIĆ IN SERBIA

Tomislav Dulić, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University

The author analyses the current process pertaining to the legal rehabilitation...
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PRESIDENT JAHJAGA
RECEIVED THE PRESIDENT
OF THE HCHRS, MRS
SONJA BISERKO

May 23, 2013

President of the Republic of Kosovo, Mrs. Atifete Jahjaga, received today at a meeting the President of
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Mrs. Sonja Biserko, whom she thanked...   More >>>

 

UN NAMES TEAM TO
INVESTIGATE TORTURE,
CAMPS IN NORTH KOREA -
RTRS

By Stephanie Nebehay

Geneva, May 7, 2013, Reuters

The United Nations on Tuesday named a team of three human rights investigators who will look into allegations of torture and labour camps in North Korea that are...   More >>>

 

THE SECRET HISTORY
OF YUGOSLAVIA

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus

April 5, 2013

In the 6th century, in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, the historian Procopius penned an account of the misdeeds of the emperor...   More >>>

 

HUMAN RIGHTS HOUSE
WRITES TO IVICA DACIC
AND ALEKSANDAR VUCIC

Belgrade, January 21, 2013

http://kucaljudskihprava.rs/

Dear Mr. Premier,
Dear Mr. Vice-premier,
We are writing to draw your attention to the attitude Minister of Justice and Administration Nikola...
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Contribution to the polemic launched in Danas: Where Serbia heads for?

WHY A PART OF CIVIL
SECTOR BACKS VUCIC?

By Sonja Biserko

www.danas.rs, Dec 25, 2012

The May elections tectonically changed Serbia’s political scene. But the Progressists and the new government have no answers to...   More >>>

 

REGIONAL WOMEN’S
LOBBY FOR PEACE,
SECURITY AND JUSTICE
IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
(RWL SEE)

Meeting Declaration

Istanbul, Turkey,
December 10, 2012

The Regional Women’s Lobby for Peace, Security and Justice in Southeast Europe (RWLSEE), in
support of a dialogue...
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REPRESENTATIVES OF
CIVIC SOLIDARITY
PLATFORM MET US
SECRETARY OF STATE

Hillary Clinton: “You are on the right side of history”

Dublin, December 6, 2012

The Committee’s Executive Director Izabela Kisic Meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Dublin:
As one of eleven human rights...   More >>>

 

TRANSCRIPT OF BILL
CLINTON’S SPEECH
TO THE DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION

September 5, 2012

Now, Mr. Mayor, fellow Democrats, we are here to nominate a president. (Cheers, applause.) And I’ve got one in mind. (Cheers, applause.) I want to nominate a man...
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INTERVIEW WITH
DAVID L. PHILLIPS

Dnevni Avaz, Daily Newspaper, Sarajevo

June 23, 2012

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 >>>

 

The Humanity in Action International Conference

THE DISSOLUTION OF YUGOSLAVIA:
ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT

Sonja Biserko

Sarajevo, June 28, 2012

Dear Founding Chair of the Humanity in Action in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Lamija Tanovic), Executive Director (Judith Goldstein), Deputy Executive Director...
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Czech Helsinki Committee

EMPLOYMENT OF
FOREIGNERS AT RADIO
FREE EUROPE

Prague, 4 June 2012

Czech Helsinki Committee criticizes the ongoing practice of Radio Free Europe which offers to job applicants the employment agreements containing discriminative and
deceptive...   More >>>

 

CONNECTING AND
EMPOWERGING WOMEN
CSOs IN THE WESTERN
BALKANS WORKING ON
WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND
GENDER EQUALITY

Workshop for women activists from Novi Pazar and Bujanovac

April 28-29, 2012

The two-day capacity-
building...   More >>>

 

A GROUP OF HELSINKI
COMMITTEE YOUNG
ACTIVISTS VISITS
SARAJEVO TO
COMMEMORATE THE
ANNIVERSARY OF THE
SIEGE

April, 2012

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia took 110 students, young people and activists to the ceremony...   More >>>

 

CAMPAIGN WATCH 2012

Newsletter No. 5,
May 15, 2012 >>>

 

 

 

Newsletter No. 4,
April 29, 2012 >>>

 

 

 

Newsletter No. 3,
April 17, 2012 >>>

 

 

 

Newsletter No. 2,
March 30, 2012 >>>

 

 

 

Newsletter No. 1,
March >>>

 

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT:
SERBIA

April 8, 2011

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

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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