Ethnic Communities in Kosovo in 2006

The report relates to the period January-December 2006, coinciding with the Vienna talks on the future status of Kosovo between the Serbian Government and Kosovo Negotiations Team. Given the circumstances, the monitoring of respect for the human rights of ethnic communities is an activity of the utmost importance.


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Ethnic Communities in Kosovo in 2006

The report relates to the period January-December 2006, coinciding with the Vienna talks on the future status of Kosovo between the Serbian Government and Kosovo Negotiations Team. Given the circumstances, the monitoring of respect for the human rights of ethnic communities is an activity of the utmost importance.

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Humanitarian Law Center Annual Report 2006

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is actively helping countries formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia establish the rule of law and accept the legacy of their past marked by mass human rights abuses committed during armed conflicts on their territories, in order to prevent the recurrence of such crimes, establish the criminal responsibility of perpetrators, and serve justice.


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Kosovo Institutions Applying the Law on the Use of Languages

In the period from July to October 2007, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC – Kosovo) researched and analyzed the extent to which local Kosovo institutions, Kosovo Assembly, District and Municipal Court in Prishtinë/Priština, Kosovo Property Agency, and Health Care Centre IV apply the Law on the Use of Languages. HLC-Kosovo conducted research in the following multiethnic municipalities: (Prizren/Prizren, Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, Klinë/Klina, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Peja/Peć, and Dragaš/Dragash). It was also conducted in the municipalities with a predominantly Albanian population (Skenderaj/Srbica, Deçan/Dečane, Gllogovc/Glogovac, Malishevë/Mališevo, Podujevë/Podujevo/), and in the municipalities with predominantly Serb population (Štrpce/Shtërpcë, Leposavić/Leposaviq, Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok, and Zvečan/Zveçan). HLC-Kosovo treated Prishtinë/Priština and Mitrovicë/Mitrovica as special cases.


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Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo in 2005

This report is based on more than 60 interviews with the members of minority ethnic communities in relation to the following issues: freedom of movement, return of displaced persons, access to public services, education, upbringing, and employment, use of mother tongue, and house reconstruction; as well as on interviews with victims of ethnically motivated incidents, and information available on individuals punished for the ethnic violence that erupted on 17 March 2004.


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Fate of the Missing Albanians in Kosovo

The report was composed on the basis of the statements given by witnesses and family members of the missing persons, data and observations of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Monitors who regularly followed the exhumation and autopsies of the bodies found in the mass graves in Serbia, as well as data on bodies that were identified and handed over, received from the families or Belgrade War Crimes Chamber Investigative Judge who signs the Record on Identified Mortal Remains Hand Over.


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List of Items Discovered in Mass Graves in Serbia

1. Batajnica 01 [BA 01]    

1.1 Exhumation and forensic examination of the bodies: 12 – 27 June, 2001.

1.2 Forensic team of the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Belgrade: 
Professor Dr Dušan Dunjić, Dr Tanja Atanasijević, Dr Vesna Đokić, Dr Đorđe Alempijević, Professor Slobodan Savić, anthropologists Profesor Dr Marija Đurić and her assistant Dr Danijela Đonić, and archaeologist Andrej Starović, Research Station Petnica.

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