A meeting between representatives of civil society organizations and the delegation of the Kingdom of Norway in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe led by the Head of the delegation. Ms. Karin Woldseth and the Deputy Head of the delegation, Ms. Lisa Christoffsen was held on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Vesna Petrović from the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Vladimir Petronijević from Group 484, Dušan Janjić from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Ivana Stanković from Praxis, and Milan Antonijević from YUCOM attended the meeting besides Nataša Kandić and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC.
A group of participants in the program Youth Reconciliation Ambassadors organized by the Youth Education Committee from Belgrade visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. The program gathers young individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia who exchange experiences of their societies in the processes of transition and reconciliation, with a special focus on the European integration as a supplemental mechanism in these processes.
On Monday August 27th, 2012, a group of students from Princeton University visited the Humanitarian Law Center. The visit was organized by the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University in the US. The students are currently on a study visit to Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia, during which they especially focus on inter-religious dialogue, the promotion of reconciliation, and the building of sustainable peace in the region. Marijana Toma and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC presented the history and the work of the HLC to the students.
Representatives of the HLC, Sandra Orlović and Marijana Toma, had a meeting today with Ombudsman Saša Janković anent the problems that victims of human rights violations committed during 1990s have to face in the proceedings for the recognition of the status of civilian victims of war.
On August 7, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision according to which the ICC Trust Fund for Victims would secure reparations for the victims of Thomas Lubanga, aconvicted leader of the militia of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the first decision of its kind since the establishment of the ICC in 2002. The Court has recommended a set of reparative measures and delegated their application to the Fund for Victims, which will perform this task in collaboration with victims’ associations.
Belgrade, August 2nd, 2012- HLC Deputy Director Sandra Orlović and Petar Žmak, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Reparations Coordinator, attended a meeting today, August 2nd, 2012, with the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Nevena Petrušić, regarding HLC’s initiative for the amendment of the legal framework for the realizing of the rights of civilian victims of war in Serbia. HLC representatives informed the Commissioner about the existing legal framework, which prevents victims of human rights violations committed during 1990’s by members of the Serbian army and police, family members of the missing, and rape victims, from realizing their rights in the capacity of civilian victims of war. Furthermore, representatives of the HLC stated that they expected from the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality in Serbia to focus on the unjustly different treatment of certain categories of victims of serious violations of human rights in Serbia.
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A panel discussion on the role of archives in the protection and promotion of human rights was organized as part of the Central European University Summer course on the ‘Policy and Practice in Access to Digital Archives’ held in the period July 2nd-6th, 2012 in Budapest. Archivist Stana Tadić represented the Humanitarian Law Center at this gathering. Other participants in the panel discussion were Gabrijela Gavran, the Manager of the War Crimes Database at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Law, Gabriella Ivacs, Chief Archivist of the Open Society’s Archive in Budapest, Nikola Mokrović, an archivist from Documenta,Zagreb, and Alice Nemcova, an OSCE researcher-coordinator.