This year’s recipient of the Konstantin Obradović Prize for contribution to the advancement of a human rights culture is Dr Milivoj Despot, a retired Military Supreme Court Judge and well-known expert on humanitarian law. 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. So far the prize has been awarded to Predrag Koraksić (2000), and Svetlana Lukić and Svetlana Vuković (2001).The prize was awarded by a jury consisting of Filip David, Dr Vojin Dimitrijević and Dr Vesna Pešić.
The prize will be formally presented at 12pm on the 7th of December 2002, at the International Press Center Tanjug, Knez Mihailova 6, Level 3, Belgrade. With the annual presentation of this prize the Belgrade Center for Human Rights also commemorates December 10, Human Rights Day.
Following the award ceremony the Belgrade Center for Human Rights will present two short films it has produced: “A Man’s Story” and “Someone is always bothering someone over something”
