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ANNUAL REPORT 2000

Human Rights in Serbia 2000

 

I INTRODUCTION

Status of human rights in the year
2000 resulted from many negative developments which marked the past decade, or legacy thereof. The nationalistic project was defeated, but that defeat is yet to be accepted. The aforementioned is best mirrored in nationalism which persists, although
it has lost its mailed fist. New authorities have only 'retouched' nationalism and are yet to make a clean break with respect to the previous policy. Such a break would indicate discontinuity...   More >>>

 

II INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Judiciary in Serbia has never been independent. The state nurtured for decades an obedient mind-set of the judiciary, which as such peaked in the year 2000. Judiciary bore the brunt of the regime's repression, which in its last stages led to elimination of
division of power and subjugation of the judiciary to the executive power. Judiciary and police transmitted the political will of political strongmen. Hence the judiciary lost its reputation
of impartial branch of...   More >>>

 

III PRISONS

In penitentiaries Serbia-wide convicts staged riots in December 5-early December 2000 period, which irrespective of their possible political background, drew attention to numerous problems related to the enforcement of prison sentences. According to the Serbian Ministry of Justice and press and electronic
media coverage, rioting began on 5 November 2000 at 23 ha and 25 minutes in Sremska Mitrovica penitentiary. Convicts demanded improvement of prison...   More >>>

 

IV INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Public opinion in Serbia considered the Hague Tribunal, since its
inception, an anti-Serbian institution, unlawful and created under the US dictate. Co-operation with the Tribunal was minimal, although the Tribunal's office operated in Belgrade before the NATO intervention. To date the FRY has not extradited any war crime suspect. The
new authorities are yet to change their...   More >>>

 

V FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND RIGHT TO INFORMATION

The 5 October political turnaround positively affected the media scene in Serbia which had been previously divided in two confronted fronts: the pro-
regime media (the most influential electronic medium, Radio Television Serbia, daily Politika, TANJUG news agency, etc. and independent media, numerous dailies and weeklies, and Radio and
TV stations...   More >>>

 

VI DISCIPLINING THE UNIVERSITY

The underlying objectives of the University Act were fully attained. Under the cover of the University Act a plan of political, moral and cultural destruction of the Serbian high school education was successfully implemented. Two years after the Act's enforcement the Serbian high schools, notably the elite Belgrade University, lost over 200 professors
and assistants, of whom
two thirds were young people with...   More >>>

 

VII SOCIAL AND
ECONOMIC RIGHTS

Economy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is still in a deep crisis, originating from the SFRY disintegration and wars waged by Serbia in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although this catastrophic economic situation is most often attributed to international sanctions, it is quite certain that reasons of the crisis lie in a collapsing economic system, obsolete and inadequate...   More >>>

 

VIII NATIONAL MINORITIES

In the past decade there was no public debate on issues having a bearing on democratisation of multi-
ethnic Serbia. Thus any mention of status of minorities was qualified as ingratitude of those who enjoyed 'the internationally recognised minority rights." Due to its pariah state status and its self-imposed isolation Serbia missed out on the globalisation process, new trends in international relations and
in international...   More >>>

 

IX REFUGEES

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...   More >>>

 

X FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Legal provisions related to freedom of religion are systematised in constitutions of Serbia and the FRY. Both Constitutions articulate two basic principles of the aforementioned freedom: the non-establishment principle and the free exercise principle in the following manner: "Church is separated from the state. Churches are equal and free in conducting religious affairs and officiating
rites." (Article...   More >>>

 

XI PROBLEM OF ANTIPERSONAL MINES
IN SERBIA

Since 1998 the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights co-ordinated the Yugoslav Campaign for Antipersonal Mine Ban
(anti-infantry mines). The latter is a member of the International Campaign for Antipersonal Mines Ban, an international movement rallying such national campaigns in over 70 countries. To date the biggest achievement of this International...   More >>>

 

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