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SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE PROMOTION
OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, REPARATION AND GUARANTEES
OF NON-RECURRENCE

Human Rights Council, Eighteenth session

26 September 2011

The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights, the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 8 June 1977, other relevant international human rights law and international humanitarian law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Recalling the set of principles for the protection and promotion of... Acrobat PDF (191kb) >>>

Dealing with the Past in the Balkans

HIJACKED JUSTICE

by Jelena Subotic

September 2009

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What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In HIJACKED JUSTICE, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She finds that international efforts to... More >>>

HEAD OF SERBIA'S HELSINKI COMMITTEE SAYS SERBIA STILL 'RELATIVIZES' ITS CRIMES AND HAS FAILED TO TELL YOUNG PEOPLE THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NINETIES

Q How is Serbia working on the process of facing the past?
A: It has not even been possible to start the process, despite the fact that many groups and individuals have worked on it... through conferences, panels, printing publications, making...
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Interview with Geoffrey NICE, Lawyer:

KARADZIC TRIAL WILL PROVE BELGRADE'S RESPONSIBILITY

Edina Becirevic

"Dani", 30 October 2009

Sir Geoffrey NICE is a barrister from London. He studied law at Oxford. He is a member of England and Wales Bar Council where he serves as a vice-president for education and ethics. He worked at the Tribunal in The Hague on two occasions: between 1998 and 2000 as a prosecutor in cases Goran Jelisic and Kordic/Cerkez, and between 2001 and...
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OPENING A DIALOGUE
ON THE RECENT PAST
'WITHIN' THE SERBIAN
SOCIETY

SANDŽAK: CONSEQUENCES OF REPRESSIVE STATE POLICY

Panel Discussion

Belgrade, 2 November 2007

Sonja Biserko

We think that it is very important to discuss the situation in Sandzak at this moment

of time, for Sandzak seems one of the potentially most vulnerable... More >>>

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: PROCESS OF FACING THE PAST IN SERBIA AND POSSIBILITIES FOR REGIONAL NORMALIZATION

Sonja Biserko and Edina Becirevic

Dani, No 642, 9. October 2009

The last chance for making Serbia face the truth though international legal mechanism was missed on September 27, 2007 when the International Court of Justice ruled that Serbia was responsible just for "failing of prevent" the Srebrenica genocide. The ruling was interpreted to the public in Serbia as a proof that Serbia had not...
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Facing the Past

HYPNOTIZED STATE

By Bojan al Pinto-Brkic

01/17/2006, Source: Helsinki Charter No 89-90

Theologians are keeping something from us. There is an irrational trait to state power that could hardly fit into the teaching that all power is from God (agnostics would say that all power is irrational). And to prove it, you don't even have to leave your armchair. In mid-December all media carried the news that following the report of the ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte to the UN Security... More >>>

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