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. The course was comprised of lectures, panel discussions, moot court sessions, and workshops. Lectures covered such topics as: the role and development of human rights; conditions for the enjoyment of human rights; restrictions and derogations of human rights; international sources of human rights; international procedures for human rights protection; jurisprudence of the European Court for Human Rights; domestic sources of human rights; human rights cases before Yugoslav courts; and lectures on various rights.
Three weekend seminars were organised to accommodate members of the judiciary who were unable to attend the course programmes, and reached a total audience of 111 participants from various towns in Serbia. These seminars focused on human rights standards regarding the European Convention on Human Rights and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and supervisory bodies of the international human rights treaties.
