Author Archives: Tamara Protic - 2016

Protection Response in Dimitrovgrad

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May 2, 2016

Donor: International Rescue Committee and Open Society Foundations

Duration: February 2016 – August 2016

The aim of this six-months long project was to provide consistent protection monitoring and a referral mechanism in the area where this was not available. The BCHR worked on achieving improvement in three main areas – the coordination of IRC partners in protection issues in Dimitrovgrad, building a referral mechanism, and strengthening local capacities. (more…)

ICTY Convicts Radovan Karadzic

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March 29, 2016
Marko MilanovicPublished on March 25, 2016        Author: 
 

Yesterday the ICTY Trial Chamber convicted Radovan Karadzic, the wartime political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, for numerous crimes committed during the conflict and sentenced him to 40 years imprisonment. The (mammoth) trial judgment is here, standing at 2615 pages that not even Karadzic’s lawyers will read as a whole; the more accessible summary is here.

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The women helping refugees in Serbia

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March 9, 2016

f91242a798ca4968a29d875052a27f39_18Women in Serbia share their stories about helping refugees as many recall being displaced themselves.
Saman Vjestica – ‘I was thrown in the middle of all these desperate people’

“When I first started working as an interpreter at the Asylum Info Centre, it was just a job for me. My native language is Urdu, which many Afghans happen to understand. I was never involved in humanitarian work. In Pakistan, my home country, I taught English literature.

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