Donor: Catholic Relief Service (CRS) and United States Agency for International Development USAID
Duration of the project: October 2002 – May 2003

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights designed and conducted a comprehensive study on the trafficking of Roma women and children from Serbia (risk and resilience factors).

The study had the following 3 objectives: (more…)

Donor: ACCESS – Sofia Foundation
Duration of the project: February – October 2002

The Media Legislation and Access to Information project is the crosscutting activity of Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and the ACCESS Association (Sofia), representing the BHRN Network and SEENPM, respectively, with support from the Danish School of Journalism in Arhus. (more…)

Donor: Freedom House
Duration of project: January – October 2002

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised four Human Rights Schools for Police in the period from February to September 2002. The main purpose of these courses was to introduce participants to human rights law, criminal procedure standards, and other relevant issues for modern police services. The project responded to the need to educate police on human rights, civil society and democracy given the experience of the previous ten years in a repressive authoritarian system, expressions of police brutality, and the neglect of these themes by the educational system. It was especially important given the critical role of police in the processes of transition and democratic change. (more…)

Donor: Cooperazione Italiana Nord Sud (CINS) – European Union
Duration of the project: February 2002 – May 2003

In the first phase of the project, a seminar on human rights for judges was organised by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, with help from CINS and financial support of the European Commission. The main purpose of the course was to introduce members of judiciary to human rights law and culture, enable them to pay respect on the international human rights standards in their every-day work, as well as to enable them to lecture in this field. Twenty-three participants from five towns in Serbia took part in the seminar. The majority of classes were given in form of lectures, followed by discussions, and there were several case-study sessions that proved to be lively and popular. Lecturers were chosen among the most prominent experts from Yugoslavia and abroad. Belgrade Centre for Human Rights provided the participants with its publications and various articles related to specific topics dealt with during the seminar. (more…)

Donor: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, Swedish Helsinki Committee, UNICEF, Open Society Fund and Catholic Relief Service
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The “You are Right!” booklet was created in 2002 by the Youth Group of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. The booklet is a practical guide of the Serbian legal system as it relates to the rights and duties of young citizens. It is based on the already existing Citizenship Foundation’s guidebook, “Young Citizen’s Passport,”  but adapted to Serbia specifically. The pilot phase in 2002 saw the distribution of 6.000 copies in nearly 130 secondary schools Serbia-wide. “You are Right!” promotions, organised in Serbia’s towns, attracted considerable public attention.

Donor: Norwegian People`s Aid (NPA)
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and its regional partners (the Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo, the Croatian Helsinki Committee in Zagreb and the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights in Podgorica (CEDEM)) have successfully cooperated on the first phase of a three-year project, Retraining Lawyers in Transition Countries of Southeast Europe. The goal of the project is the re-education of the rule of law, human rights and humanitarian law to a target group of law professionals who were subject to a system of education that did not provide them with an opportunity to be properly introduced to the international promotion and protection of human rights. (more…)