Donor:  Embassy of Switzerland
Duration of the project: July 2004 – February 2005

The translation of the textbook on international criminal law, written by Antonio Cassese, former President of ICTY and the leading authority in the field and published by Oxford University Press in 2003 was of great importance for future administration of justice. There is no better book on the subject published in any language and there is no national expert able to produce a book on modern international criminal law. By translating and publishing this book Belgrade Centre would like to contribute to the scientific community with the excellent text which will be useful not only to students but to the judges and other members of legal profession. Professor Obrad Racic was in charge of the translation. He was assited by Marko Milanovic and Vidan Hadzi Vidanovic. Prof. Vojin Dimitrijevic completed the revision of the translation.

Donor: Catolic Relief services
Duration: June – December 2004

The aim of this project was to promote transparency of government to the civil society as a civil right and to support process of social accountability of government regarding allocation of budget resources assigned for counter-trafficking activities. In addition, the project’s aim was to identify sources for collecting relevant data and opinions related to allocation of financial resources for combating trafficking in human beings in the states’ annual budget, and to recognize eventual obstacles for the treatment of anti-trafficking as a priority issue. (more…)

Donor: OSCE
Duration of project: 26 – 28 April 2004

The project goal was to provide magistrate judges, prosecutors NGO representatives with the necessary knowledge and skills in the fields of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, including familiarity with the jurisprudence and actual practice in Serbia and abroad, as well as of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Most of the participants were the lawyers who are providing free legal assistance to the refugee population and internally displaced persons regarding their rights (mostly property rights and freedom of movement). Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organized seminar on rules and procedures of the European Court for Human Rights. (more…)

Donor: Open Society Fund

Duration of the project: March – September 2004

Project started in 2003 and was prolonged in 2004 because of the great success and interest for it’s prolongation the project lasted another six months. The purpose of this project was to raise the level of legal culture with primary and secondary school students as well as municipality officials and civil servants by educating them in human rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independence of judiciary. Lecturers were human rights experts and judges. (more…)

Donor: Norwegian People’s Aid

Duration of the project: January – December 2004       

This project started as a regional project in 2002 and until 2004 was implemented by Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights Centre of the University in Sarajevo, Croatian Helsinki Committee in Zagreb and Human Rights Action in Podgorica. (more…)

Donor: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Duration of the project: February 2004

This training was organized with the purpose to educate lawyers, NGO activists and general public about the possibilities to complain to the UN bodies in the cases of the violation of human rights. The Belgrade Centre find out that not so many lawyers are aware of these mechanisms in the UN human rights protection system. Program was focused on: International protection of human rights, UN procedures for the protection of human rights, prohibition of discrimination under UN system, decisions on discrimination by treaty bodies, jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and how to submit a case to the CERD, HRC and CAT. (more…)