The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised its 19th “Human Rights School – Vojin Dimitrijević” on 8-17 November 2013. Twenty six young people attended the workshops and lectures by more than 30 lecturers. (more…)
Donor: Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade
Duration: April 2013 – October 2014
By reinforcing and developing the outcomes of the previous project cycle, this project will work further to provide hands-on policy outputs for the most pressing issues in the areas of asylum and readmission in Serbia. The project will be implemented by partner organizations: Group 484, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. (more…)
Donor: European Union
Duration: 2012 – 2014
A team of experts will support the Serbian Government in further strengthening the anti-discrimination framework, thus contributing to the protection of human rights and minority standards and leading to an enhanced democratisation of the Serbian society. (more…)
Belgrade Center for Human Rights expresses its great concern about the situation in which asylum-seekers are in the Republic of Serbia. The problem of lack of accommodation facilities for asylum seekers has been existent for more than a year and it is unacceptable that the Commissariat for Refugees still has not found a permanent solution for this problem. Not only in terms of opening new asylum center, but also in terms of awareness of the importance of providing assistance to asylum seekers. If the asylum seekers are not provided with adequate housing, the Republic of Serbia is in the position to treat them on inhuman and degrading way, which entails responsibility before the European Court of Human Rights for violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. (more…)
Donator: UNHCR
Duration of project: January 2010 – December 2014
With UNHCR’s support, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights will continue during 2013 implementing a project aimed at providing adequate legal assistance to asylum seekers. The BCHR team will be continuously in touch with the asylum seekers by regularly visiting the reception centers at which they are accommodated. It will also be constantly in touch with the state authorities charged with asylum issues. (more…)
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights supports the holding of the Belgrade Pride 2013 event and calls on all state authorities to enforce the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Serbia conscientiously and ensure that its participants are not deprived of their fundamental human rights, as they have unfortunately been in the past. Persons whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual, i.e. homosexual, bisexual and transgender people, are often victims of various forms of discrimination, including violent ones, in Serbia as well. This event is a legitimate attempt by these people and others who understand the problems they face on a daily basis to highlight these problems. Their endeavours are based on the principles of equality, tolerance, pluralism and the rule of law which any decent state governed by law should abide by. (more…)
