7 December 2001 – This year’s recipients of the Konstantin Obradović prize for contribution to the advancement of a human rights culture are Belgrade journalists Svetlana Lukić and Svetlana Vuković. The prize was established by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights to commemorate our founder and long-time deputy director Prof. Dr. Konstantin Obradović, one of the greatest Yugoslav and international experts on humanitarian law and an active campaigner for human rights causes in our country. Konstantin Obradović passed away on the 10th of March, 2000. (more…)

12 September 2001 – The Board and all collaborators of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights are profoundly shocked by the vicious terrorist attacks on symbolic targets in the United States of America resulting in terrible losses of innocent lives. We express our solidarity with the American people and particularly with our friends from the non-governmental organizations and foundations with whom we have so fruitfully collaborated in the past decade. (more…)

11 Septembar 2001 – The Board and all collaborators of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights are profoundly shocked by the vicious terrorist attacks on symbolic targets in the United States of America resulting in terrible losses of innocent lives. We express our solidarity with the American people and particularly with our friends from the non-governmental organizations and foundations with whom we have so fruitfully collaborated in the past decade. (more…)

5 September 2001 – The Belgrade Center for Human Rights objects to the refusal by the Justice Committee of the Republic of Serbia’s National Assembly to cancel the decision which unconstitutionally and illegally dismissed Dr Slobodan Vučetić from the bench of the Constitutional Court of Serbia. As a distinguished lawyer and judge, Dr Vučetić has been selected as a member of the Council of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights. (more…)

4 September 2001 – Towards the end of October 2001 a hearing will be held before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg concerning the application by relatives of four RTS employees who were killed, and one employee who was injured, when NATO forces attacked the Radio Television Serbia (RTS) building in Belgrade on the 23^rd of April 1999. They will be represented by members of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and lawyers from Great Britain and the USA. (more…)

Press briefing

An application under the European Convention on Human Rights was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 20 October 1999, by five Serbian civilians claiming compensation for death and injury arising from the NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia building (RTS), in Belgrade on 23 April 1999.   The case is brought by the relatives of four of those who died and by a survivor of the bombing. (more…)