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All seminar programmes were designed to address the needs of Serbia’s society and the specific target groups. This is why they focussed on the prohibition of discrimination and torture, right to freedom and security of person, the right to a fair trial, privacy, freedom of expression and the right to property.
Seminars for judges, prosecutors and lawyers on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the Centre launched in 1998, were of special significance. Since 1999 the Belgrade centre has been organising trainings for judges in cooperation with the AIRE Centre from London. More…
The Centre had in this way contributed to building the capacities of legal practitioners and the expert public for the moment the country joins the Council of Europe, and to implementation of European human rights protection standards. About 60% of Serbian judges have passed through the Belgrade Centre’s schools or seminars.
The Centre has also been the main organiser, in cooperation with the Croatian Helsinki Committee, the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Sarajevo, Human Rights Action from Podgorica and Centre for Strategic Research and Documentation from Skopje, of ambitious schools for senior judges. These advaneced trainigs were held in the from 2002 until 2009 in all countries in the region and were attended by more than 1200 participants. More…
With the goal of preparing Serbian judiciary for European integrations, Belgrade centre for Human Rights is preparing new training programes for judges on foundamental issues of EU legal sysem, European insitutions, and specific human rights in context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice.
