Donor: Freedom House

Duration of project: March 2001 – March 2002

Clearly any movement to foster respect for human rights had to include, from its very inception, a program to educate the police force and their managing officials of the tenets of human rights law. In order to work toward this goal of police education, the Centre organised four 4-day seminars directed specifically at the law enforcement profession.  Participants (30 per seminar) were selected by the Board of the Belgrade Centre in close cooperation with the Federal and Republican Ministry of the Interior. Seminars were comprised of a combination of case studies, workshops, and lectures from both domestic and foreign human rights experts. The seminars began with an overview of the concrete rights the police force must respect, and covered specific institutions and human rights protection mechanisms, as well as general theory. (more…)

Donor: Bundesakademie, Germany
Duration of project: October 2001

The German Federal College for Security Studies (on behalf of the German government) and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised a seminar entitled ‘Democratic Control of Armed Forces – The Role of Parliament, Media an Academia,’ held from 25 – 27 October at Hotel Intercontinental in Belgrade. The seminar was intended for high ranking representatives – members of parliament, government officials, members of the armed forces, academics and journalists – of several South Eastern and Central European states. (more…)

Donor: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Stability Pact Fund
Duration of project: January 2001 – May 2002

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights identified the following four priorities for its overarching project of developing and strengthening democracy and human rights culture in Yugoslavia after the political changes in 2000:

1. continuation of its two-week training courses;
2. reprinting and production of educational materials;
3. production of manuals for the police and army; and
4. production of two manuals for special target groups. (more…)

Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, Stability Pact Fund
Duration of project: January – December 2001

The 450 pages Report on the Human Rights Situation in 2001 in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was drafted by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in order to offer to the Yugoslav and foreign public a survey of the actual exercise and enjoyment of the internationally-guaranteed human rights in the FRY. The Centre’s aim was to look into as many forms as possible of the exercise, enjoyment, legal regulation, limitation and violation of human rights and the most important factors influencing them. (more…)

Donor: Swedish International Agency for Development Cooperation (Sida) and Royal Netherlands Embassy
Duration of project: January – December 2001 

Although former Yugoslavia ratified all major international human rights instruments, human rights issues have never attracted particular attention of the Yugoslav legal community. Human rights have been for a long time neglected in theory and practice, and the protection of individual rights versus the state was at a disturbingly low level on the whole territory of the former Yugoslavia. One of the reasons for the lamentable human rights situation lies in the lack of knowledge and understanding of human rights, not only among the general public, but also among those who are in position to deal with human rights issues in education, law enforcement, legal representation, reporting on human rights issues, etc. (more…)

Donor: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and “Dosije” Publisher

Duration of the project: January – December 2000

The aim of the 420 pages “Human Rights in Yugoslavia 2000” Report is to provide readers, both in Yugoslavia and abroad, with relevant and up to date information on the protection of internationally guaranteed human rights in the FRY. The Report thoroughly examines the human rights situation in the FRY from legal and practical standpoints. The aim of the Centre was to show how the internationally guaranteed human rights are enjoyed in reality, to examine how they are manifested, regulated, restricted or violated, as well as to point out to the most important circumstances influencing the enjoyment of human rights in FRY. (more…)