Donor: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, Swedish Helsinki Committee, UNICEF, Open Society Fund and Catholic Relief Service
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The “You are Right!” booklet was created in 2002 by the Youth Group of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. The booklet is a practical guide of the Serbian legal system as it relates to the rights and duties of young citizens. It is based on the already existing Citizenship Foundation’s guidebook, “Young Citizen’s Passport,”  but adapted to Serbia specifically. The pilot phase in 2002 saw the distribution of 6.000 copies in nearly 130 secondary schools Serbia-wide. “You are Right!” promotions, organised in Serbia’s towns, attracted considerable public attention.

Donor: Norwegian People`s Aid (NPA)
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and its regional partners (the Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo, the Croatian Helsinki Committee in Zagreb and the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights in Podgorica (CEDEM)) have successfully cooperated on the first phase of a three-year project, Retraining Lawyers in Transition Countries of Southeast Europe. The goal of the project is the re-education of the rule of law, human rights and humanitarian law to a target group of law professionals who were subject to a system of education that did not provide them with an opportunity to be properly introduced to the international promotion and protection of human rights. (more…)

Donor: Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le developpement  – CCFD
Duration of the project: November 2002 – April 2003

Project “Raising Human Rights Awareness among School Teachers and Students” was logical continuity of the work that the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has started in 2001 – education of teachers and other multipliers in the issues related to human rights – by organising series of seminars in four different regions in Serbia. Education in the field of human rights had been at a very low level in Serbia, but after the changes in 2000 the Ministry of Education of Serbia introducing the reform in education field respecting high European standards taking into account that human rights play very important role.  (more…)

Donor: Olof Palme Center, Stockholm, Sweden
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised five ten to twelve day long human rights courses for judges and three weekend seminars for judges. Of the five courses, four took place at Hotel Metropol in Belgrade and one took place in Palić. Course lecturers were prominent members of the legal profession and university professors from Serbia and abroad. A total of 21 foreign human rights experts were incorporated for their practical experience in international human rights bodies and courts. (more…)