News from the Centre - 2019

Open letter to Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic

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February 1, 2019

Together with the Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights – YUCOM , we approached Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic regarding the formation of a Working Group for amending the Criminal Code, which considers an initiative to introduce life imprisonment and tighten prescribed sentences for certain offenses.

While welcoming the intention of the Ministry of Justice to involve civil society organizations in the drafting process of the draft Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code, the Belgrade Center for Human Rights and the Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights, YUCOM, invite the Minister of Justice to enable representatives of our associations to participate in the work of the said working group.

DOCUMENTING ABUSE AND COLLECTIVE EXPULSIONS OF REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS

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January 22, 2019

izThe number of allegations on collective expulsions from Hungary and Croatia, often including abuse of refugees and migrants began to rise gradually since the closure of the Western Balkans Route (WBR)1, аnd in particular since summer 2016. Abuse included beatings with rubber batons and fists, slapping, kicking, dog bites, use of tear gas, use of rubber bullets, insults, humiliation and intimidation. According to the data of NGO Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance (HCIT), 212 cases of collective expulsions from Hungary and Croatia involving more than 4,000 foreigners were registered in the period 1 May 2016 – 31 March 2017.2 The international organization Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) continuously published information related to abuse preceding collective expulsions from Hungary. You can download the report here..

Announcement – Human Rights Day

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December 11, 2018

Exactly seventy years ago, on 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration, adopted in response to the atrocities of World War Two, is the first document defining human rights as inviolable and as belonging to all people, regardless of who they are and where they live. Although it is not legally binding, it is the cornerstone of the history of human rights and the development of the international human rights system. (more…)