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Regional conference of the
civil society
organizations
FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
IN THE WESTERN
BALKANS
IS
LIMITED
Belgrade, January 25, 2016
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
and the
Lawyers’
Committee for Human
Rights held the
regional conference entitled “Freedom of Assembly in
the Western Balkans“ on January 25...
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OSCE PARALLEL CIVIL
SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Belgrade, 1-2 December 2015
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The Civic Solidarity Platform and the Helsinki
Committee for
Human
Rights in Serbia organized OSCE Parallel
Civil Society
Conference.
Each year
since 2010, the conference is organized on the eve of
the OSCE Ministerial
Council. It is...
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Human Rights Watch
WORLD REPORT 2015:
SERBIA
November, 2015
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There was limited progress
in human rights protection
in Serbia in 2014. War
crimes prosecutions are
slow and lack political
support. The Roma...
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ALARMING NEGLECT:
THE ELDERLY OUT IN
THE COLD
April 2015 |
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No
doubt that the mass salmonella poisoning outbreak in the
privately-run nursing home “Dvoje” in Vranići nearby Čačak was
among most serious “incidents” that ever happened in a social
care home catering
beneficiaries...
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CASTRATION? |
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Anti-torture monitors have again urged Germany to
end the
surgical castration
of sex offenders. The
recommendation is
contained in a 24 July
report on the country published by the
Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading...
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STATE DEPARTMENT
REPORT ON SERBIA 2010 |
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The
Republic of Serbia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with
approximately 7.5 million inhabitants. Boris Tadic
was reelected
president in February 2008. In May 2008 voters elected a new
parliament in which some minority ethnic parties won seats.
Observers...
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Consideration of reports
submitted by States
parties under article
40 of the Covenant
CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS OF
THE HUMAN RIGHTS
COMMITTEE
New York,
14 March -
1April 2011
1. The Committee considered the second periodic
report submitted by the Republic of Serbia (CCPR/C/SRB/2) at its
2780th and 2781st
meetings (CCPR/C/
SR.2780 and CCPR/C/
SR.2781), held
on 17 and 18 March 2011. At its 2796 meeting, held on 29...
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Consideration of reports
submitted by States
parties under article
9
of the convention
CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE
ELIMINATION OF RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION
14 February - 11 March 2011
1. The Committee considered the initial periodic
report of the Republic of Serbia (CERD/C/SRB/1) at its 2067th and
2068th meetings (CERD/C/
SR.2067 and CERD/C/
SR.2068), held on 24 and
25 February 2011. At its 2086th meeting (CERD...
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PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS (part 4)
Social care institutions catering for
children and adults with mental disabilities and persons with
mental disorders
Belgrade, September 2009
The third report stemming from the project
"Social Care Institutions in Serbia: Support to a
Reform-Oriented Strategy" - the Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights has...
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PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS (part 3)
Social care institutions catering for
children and youth without parental care, and for children and
youth with social
behavior disorders
Belgrade, September 2009
The report on the situation of social care
institutions catering for children and youth without parental
care and those with social behavior disorders...
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TORTURE
PRISONS IN SERBIA
April 2004 - April 2005
06/30/2005 , HCHRS
This publication is the output of the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia's activity
over the second year of the implementation of the project
"Prevention of Torture: Support to the Rehabilitation of
Victims of Torture" that is realized thanks to the
assistance of the European
Commission - European Initiative
for Democracy and Human Rights. Apart from the Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights
in Serbia, this three-year
project includes Bulgarian... Acrobat PDF
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TORTURE
PRISONS IN SERBIA
April 2003 - April 2004
05/10/2004
The current legislation does not provide
that non-governmental organizations may visit institutions
accommodating persons deprived of their liberty. Among other
things, this is to be ascribed to non-existent law on
non-governmental organizations. Given that it was not
possible to formalize the necessary relationship with the
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, the Helsinki
Committee established informal
ties with the Central Prison
Administration, the authorized...
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
FOR DEMOCRACY
THROUGH LAW
(VENICE COMMISSION)
OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF
SERBIA
Venice, 17-18 March 2007
The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe decided on 16 October 2006 to ask
the Venice Commission to give an Opinion on the new Constitution of
the Republic of Serbia. Messrs Grabenwarter (Austria), Jowell
(United Kingdom)...
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HUMAN RIGHTS ARE THE
HIGHEST FORM OF REALISM
By John McCain,
Financial Times
November 8 2009.
Two decades ago on Monday, the world watched in
awe as Germans poured by the millions into the streets of Berlin,
both east and west. They tore down one of history's great monuments
of human enslavement, and in so doing, the German people not only
reunited with their fellow brothers and...
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Roma Virtual Network -
romale@zahav.net.il
WHAT IS THE EU PLATFORM FOR ROMA INCLUSION?
Source: European
Commission
28th September 2009
The Platform is an open
and flexible mechanism of
governance organised by the Commission and the
EU Presidency at the
request of the Council in which key actors - EU institutions,
national governments, international organisations, NGOs...
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ANTISEMITISM
The Helsinki Committee
Communicates the News Reported by B92 News Service for December 22, 2005:
"KOSTUNICA
CONTRIBUTED AN
ARTICLE TO OBRAZ"
12/23/2005 , HCHRS
Novi Sad - In 1996, incumbent Serbian Premier
Vojislav Kostunica contributed an article to the "Obraz" magazine
originating the "Obraz Fatherland Movement." This is what the
professor at...
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
VIOLATION
Early Warning
Newsletter No. 43
08 September 2009
Does the new Infomation Law abolish media
freedom in Serbia?
At its Aug. 31, 2009 session, the People's
Assembly of the Republic of Serbia passed the
amended Law on public
Information (hereinafter: LoPI) whose provisions provoked much
turmoil in...
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REASONS FOR THE CURRENT
UPSURGE IN MEMORY
Pierre Nora
Over the last quarter century, every country,
every social, ethnic or
family group, has undergone a profound
change in the relationship it traditionally enjoyed with
the past.
Pierre Nora looks at where this
"memorialism" came
from and why. We
are
witnessing a world-wide
upsurge in memory. Over...
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THE FETTERS OF VICTORY
Lev Gudkov
How the war provides Russia with its identity
Victory in the "Great
Patriotic War" is the most potent symbol of
identification in present-day Russia, and the sole prop for national
self-belief. Victory legitimated Soviet totalitarianism; now, the
more the memory of Stalinist repression fades, the more public
opinion turns in the dictator's favour. The commemora...
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Eurozine Editorial
EUROPEAN HISTORIES: TOWARDS A GRAND NARRATIVE?
Introduction
The western political representatives who met Putin in Moscow on 9
May to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II
were confronted by a version of history very different from their
own. The event highlighted the way in
which the comfortable
historical consensus...
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STATE VISITS
Internationalized commemoration of WWII
in
Russia and Germany
Andreas Langenohl
Commemoration ceremonies in 2004 and 2005 have
shown that the internationalization of remembrance of World War II
is well underway. However, it takes place within a framework of
national memorial cultures. The Russian and the German reactions to
the sixtieth anniversary of...
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HOLOCAUST: THE
IGNORED REALITY
Timothy Snyder
If we concentrate on Auschwitz and the Gulag -
generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of
mass slaughter - we fail to notice that over a period of twelve
years, between 1933 and 1944, some 12 million victims of Nazi and
Soviet mass killing policies perished in a particular region of
Europe, one defined more or less by...
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
- PRESS RELEASE
SERBIA: HUMAN
RIGHTS DEFENDERS
UNDER THREAT
14 September 2009
Human rights defenders
are under attack in Serbia
and the authorities are failing to protect them, Amnesty
International said in a briefing published today. "Physical attacks
and threats to the lives and property of human rights activists are
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UN COMMITTEE FINDS SERBIA VIOLATED TORTURE
CONVENTION
Geneva, 24 July 2009
The UN Committee Against Torture (the Committee)
has considered the case of violence and racial abuse against a
Romani man and as of 8 May 2009 issued a decision finding Serbia to
have been in violation of a number of provisions of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (CAT). Besim Osmani was... More >>> |
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