Donor: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Duration of the project:  October 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised two day seminar in Belgrade for civil servants from relevant state ministries/ agencies; judges; NGOs. Main issues addressed on this seminar were: Serbia and the European Union (basic facts on the EU, accession process, Stabilisation and Association Agreement etc.); the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ); the ECJ and the protection of fundamental rights, equality and non-discrimination before the ECJ; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights before the ECJ. Lecturers were: Milica Delevic-Djilas, Vesna Rakic-Vodinelic, Vojin Dimitrijevic, Borko Nikolic, Tanja Papic, Vidan Hadzi-Vidanovic.

Donor: Neighbourhood Programe of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Duration of the project: August 2005 – July 2006

The result of this project was comprehensive human rights report with the detailed and relevant information on the legislation, practice and citizen’s attitudes toward the human rights in the whole region. Report  included recommendations for the improvement of legislation gaps and failures in respect of human rights standards, comparison of the domestic laws with international human rights instruments which are binding and the case law before the international courts and tribunals affecting the human rights situation in the countries in the region. (more…)

Donor: Norwegian People Aid
Duration of the project: April 2005 – April 2006

Partner organisations in this project are: the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the Centre for Human Rights of the University in Sarajevo, the Human Rights Action Montenegro and FORUM-Centre for Strategic Research and Documentation from Macedonia.
In 2005 six seminars were organised throughout the region. The participating organisations have reached 193 beneficiaries from the region. Majority of them were judges, prosecutors and deputy prosecutors, court advisors and judicial associates, but also attorneys and others (representatives of international organizations and NGOs, ministries, ombudsperson offices, etc.). (more…)

Donor: Swedish Helsinki Committee
Duration of the project: June 2005 – January 2006

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights published 500 copies of the compilation of the European Court of Human Rights judgements on discrimination. The compilation of judgements contributed to the raising knowledge and awareness on prohibition of discrimination standards and to their better application in SaM. Moreover, this publication would serve as a useful tool for the advocacy, campaigning, promotion and protection of equal treatment.

Donor: Council of Europe (CoE)
Duration of the project: Jun 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with CoE, organized seminar for private practising lawyers. This seminar took place in Belgrade from 16 to 18 June 2005. The participants were members of the legal professionals from various Serbian cities. The  main goals of the seminar were to provide an introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of the European Convention on Human Rights, European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) and Council of Europe; to examine key ECtHR principles and rights from the Convention with particular relevance to domestic legal provisions; to familiarize participants with the application of international human rights standards into domestic law and practice, focusing on jurisprudence of ECtHR and its relevance for domestic trials. (more…)

Donor: ABA – CEELI
Duration of project: Jun – December 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised four three-day seminars. Seminars took place in Valjevo, Zrenjanin, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad The project goal was to provide magistrate judges and prosecutors 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 and supervisory bodies of the international human rights treaties.
Beneficiaries of the project are: prosecutors, deputy prosecutors, prosecutors’ assistants, trainees, magistrate judges, assistant and trainees. The number of beneficiaries is 100 members of the judicial system in Serbia.