Donor: Danish Centre for Human Rights and the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Duration of the project: January – December 1998
The Report on the human rights situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1998 was the first one produced by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights with the wish to present to the public in Yugoslavia and abroad the most important information on how the internationally guaranteed human rights have been respected and enjoyed in the FRY. The intention of the Centre was to examine all the aspects in which human rights were manifested, regulated and enjoyed, restricted or violated in 1998 and to describe the circumstances which influence the true Enjoyment of human rights in the country.In the first part of the consist of the analyze of the constitutional, legal and administrative provisions on human rights. They are compared to international human rights standards and to the obligations that Yugoslavia had under international treaties. The second part of the Report is devoted to actual practice, i.e. to the de facto respect and enjoyment of human rights in the FRY.
In the belief that the attitude of citizens towards their own rights and the rights of other human beings was as important as the tenor of legal provisions and their interpretation and application by the authorities, the Centre undertook, in the summer of 1998, a survey of the public awareness of human rights on an important sample of citizens from all parts of Yugoslavia, except Kosovo and Metohija. The results of the survey are reproduced and interpreted in the third part of the Report.
If You would like to read the Human Rights in FRY – A Comprehensive Report for 1998 (in Serbian and English), 1999.
