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FISHING IN MUDDY WATERS

By Sonja Biserko

 

 

Helsinki Charter No. 127-128
January - February 2009

As it seems, Serb nationalists see the global economic crisis - or, as they call it, the global turmoil - as a most welcome

opportunity for keeping alive their (defeated) project. Now that even Russia, their main pillar, undergoes serious financial crisis, the Serb front is in constant offensive led, in the first place, by authors of the Memorandum, several writers, journalists and historians. In the past months...   More >>>

 

 

PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS

Human Rights in Social Care Institutions in Serbia

Part I

Belgrade, April 2009.

The report on the situation in social care institutions...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 24

NATO - YES OR NO?

April 2009.

In early April a debate on relations with the most important military - political alliance, the NATO Pact, has (un)expectedly been launched. Only several days after culmination of anti-NATO campaignon the occasion of the 10th anniversary (24th March) of the NATO operation in the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, "Allied Force", to which many in Serbia wrongly and pathetically...
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HEARING ON BALKANS

Source: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe - United States Helsinki Commission (CSCE)

Date: 02 Apr 2009

Unofficial transcript

REPRESENTATIVE ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL): Ladies and gentlemen, if I could call the hearing to order. I'd appreciate it very much if we could get the hush in the back of the room toned down a little bit. It would be deeply appreciated...
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THE WESTERN BALKANS: CHALLENGES FOR U.S. AND EUROPEAN ENGAGEMENT

Ivo Banac, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe in the United States Congress

2 April 2009; Bosnian Institute,
8 April 2009

Washington, D.C. -- Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Commission:
In your kind invitation you expressed an interest in my views on the overall trends in the countries of...
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HELSINKI COMMISSION HEARING

Dr. James Lyon, Senior Associate - Democratization Policy Council

April,2009

Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Commission:
Thank you for the opportunity to address you and discuss developments in the Western Balkans. The Democratization Policy Council thanks you for your committed interest in the...
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CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST DOBRICA COSIC

YUCOM / Helsinki Committee

02. April 2009.

The Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia have filed at the District Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade criminal charges against Dobrica Cosic for committing the crime of inciting national, racial and religious hatred and intolerance according to article 317...   More >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATION ::: PUBLICATION

HELSINKI FILES No. 27

Vojvodina's Multiethnic Identity: Challenges in 2007-08

Edited by Pavel Domonji

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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights finalized this September the complex, 18-month project "Fostering Vojvodina's Multiethnic Identity." The project, realized with the assistance of the European Commission - EIDHR, was meant to promote intercultural and

interethnic understanding, strengthen the role of the civil society in conflict prevention and...

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ANNUAL REPORT 2007

SELF-ISOLATION: REALITY AND THE GOAL

Serbia 2007

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The nature of political changes in Serbia in October 2000 and later, in December 2003 (after the assassination of Premier Zoran Djindjic), could not have secured a consensus on the basis tenets of the modern world, human rights included,

that should make the foundation of the Serbian society. This is reflected in the public discourse and predominant...

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REPORTS

WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED IN 2008

IIn setting our priorities for 2008 we were aware that any serious concern with human rights in Serbia presupposed continued observation and analysis of the developments, tendencies and factors influencing the country's reformist potential and democratic transition, "standardization" of public life, response to transitional justice, major decision-makers' readiness to take it towards Euro-Atlantic integration and the society's prevalent mindset, including that towards any otherness (ethnic, political, religious, etc.). This was the context in which, throughout 2008, our Committee was cooperating with various donors in thematic projects that reflected the organization's overall mission and strategy. To start...

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

Author: Sonja Biserko, interviewed by Dani

Uploaded: Thursday, 23 October, 2008

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...

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BRIEFLY NOTED: BRAMMERTZ SLAMS SERBIAN TRIBUNAL COOPERATION

Chief prosecutor said there has been no notable progress in delivering remaining suspects to Hague.

By Simon Jennings in The Hague

Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz criticised Serbian cooperation with the...

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Srebrenica and the London Bombings

THE 'ANTI-WAR' LINK

By Marko Attila Hoare
23rd July 2005

At Srebrenica on 11 July 1995, Christian Serb fascists - Chetniks - massacred about eight thousand Muslim men and boys. A few days before the tenth anniversary of the massacre...

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PEOPLE'S RADICAL PARTY

The Origins of the Ideology of Social, National and Political Unity of the Serb People

Latinka Perovic

The People's Radical Party is among the landmarks of Serbia's modern history. It emanates social and national collectivism of the Serb people. The former relies on patriarchal institutions...

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HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOLS

www.humanrightschools.org

Children are not born xenophobic, intolerant of others and those considered different, children are not born as...

www.humanrightschools.org

 

 

 

BOSNIA: NEW ROW OVER ICJ RULING

Last year's International Court of Justice ruling provokes political disagreement in Bosnia.

By IWPR and RFE staff in Sarajevo and Belgrade

Bosnian victims of the 1990s Balkans wars welcomed last year's ICJ ruling that Serbia was guilty of failing to punish the...

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