Donor: Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le developpement  – CCFD
Duration of the project: November 2002 – April 2003

Project “Raising Human Rights Awareness among School Teachers and Students” was logical continuity of the work that the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has started in 2001 – education of teachers and other multipliers in the issues related to human rights – by organising series of seminars in four different regions in Serbia. Education in the field of human rights had been at a very low level in Serbia, but after the changes in 2000 the Ministry of Education of Serbia introducing the reform in education field respecting high European standards taking into account that human rights play very important role.  (more…)

Donor: Olof Palme Center, Stockholm, Sweden
Duration of the project: January – December 2002 

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised five ten to twelve day long human rights courses for judges and three weekend seminars for judges. Of the five courses, four took place at Hotel Metropol in Belgrade and one took place in Palić. Course lecturers were prominent members of the legal profession and university professors from Serbia and abroad. A total of 21 foreign human rights experts were incorporated for their practical experience in international human rights bodies and courts. (more…)

Donor: Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade       

Duration of the project: July – December 2001

The Third Festival “One World” was held in Prague in April 2001, under the auspices of Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Václav Havel, Pre­si­dent of the Czech Republic. It is in practice that other countries do the re-screening of the best films from the Prague Festival. (more…)

Donor: USAID 

Duration of the project: January – August 2001 

Due to the attitude of the former Yugoslav government and government-controlled media towards human rights and humanitarian law, human rights in the FRY were perceived by the public as a tool for Western countries interests and not as a main precondition for democratisation. However, after political changes on 5 October 2000, a favourable atmosphere for a promotion of human rights was created. (more…)

Donor: Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces
Duration of the project: February – November 2001

Initiated by Switzerland, the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF), as an international endeavor dedicated to promoting and facilitating the structuring of civil-military relations in accordance with fundamental democratic principles, assigned the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights to provide DCAF with an analytical report on the legal dimensions of reform of the security sector in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (more…)

Donor: Danish Association for International Co-operation (Mellemvolkeleight Samvirke)
Duration of project: July – August 2001

The second, 2001, summer work camp took place in Tekija, a small picturesque town situated in the Djerdap gorge of the river Danube, close to the Romanian border. The purpose of the camp was to provide participants with the basic information, education and training in human rights and the rights of the child, with a focus on combating racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance. The purpose of establishing such work camp was also to bring young people from the former Yugoslavia region and Europe together. A similar camp was held in Tekija in summer 2000. The purpose of the camp was to provide participants with basic information, education and training in the fields of human rights and the rights of the child, with a focus on combating racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance. The work camp format was chosen to bring together young people from Europe and the former Yugoslavia. (more…)