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RETURN OF REFUGEES

The Helsinki Committee monitors the problems of refugees, underlining the inadequate policy of the governments of Serbia and Yugoslavia regarding refugee issues, as well as their attempts to (ab)use them for political goals. Several tens of thousands of refugees came to the Helsinki Committee's office and filled in forms stating that they do not give up their
property and that they want to return to their homes in Croatia. The Committee has launched the project "I want to go home" aimed at helping refugees return in an organised way, and especially to help their reintegration back home. Several
thousands refugees have so far returned to Croatia with the Committee's assistance.

PRESS RELEASE

Darmstadt,
7 December 2002

12/26/2002, Author: HCHRS

Without any commitment to specific political targets or obligations, over 40 scholars and experts from Israel, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, the United States and Germany met from the 5th to 7th December at the Haus der Deutsch-Balten (House of the German Balts) in Darmstadt for an international academic colloquium "A EUROPEAN CENTRE AGAINST EXPULSIONS... More >>>

LETTER TO VLADAN
BATIC, MINISTER OF
JUSTICE, REPUBLIC
OF SERBIA

Belgrade, 22 January, 2002

08/11/2002, Author: HCHRS

Dear Mr. Batic: It has been five years now that the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has been engaged in the project to assist the refugees from
the Republic of Croatia. The assistance includes the Committee's mediation in securing personal documents to the refugees from Croatia. The fact that registers of births, marriages and deaths have
been... More >>>

IX REFUGEES

08/11/2002, Source: Annual Report 2000, Author: HCHRS

The refugee issue, one of key moral and political issues of Serbia instead of being tackled, is constantly sidelined. The Yugoslav authorities in the past 10 years did not show any understanding for
problems of refugees, except when concern over their fate served their political purposes and-
promotions. A false picture was created of bearable life of refugees. This was intended to boost their hopes that "better life is just around the corner" and to
dissuade... More >>>

STATUS OF REFUGEES
IN SERBIA

09/04/2002, Source: Annual Report - 2001, Author: HCHRS

Issue of refugees, one of the key moral, political and economic topics in Serbia, continues to be sidelined. One gets the impression that the new authorities, like the former regime, use refugees only to further their own ends or for
promotional purposes. Status of refugees in Serbia after DOS installation has not improved much, despite authorities' pledges that refugees would become a top priority/concern of the state and society. It was moreover... More >>>

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