Belgrade – Setting up a regional commission for the establishment of facts of war crimes and other serious human rights violations (RECOM) is a strong reason for a second meeting, with Tomislav Nikolic, Natasa Kandic, President of the Humanitarian Law Center, told Serbian daily newspaper Danas, when asked whether she would request a meeting with the President of Serbia, in her capacity as an advocate for the Initiative for RECOM.
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.
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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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On February 11th, 2011, the Humanitarian Law Center commenced an initiative calling for the dismissal of Tomislav Stojković, a Constitutional Court judge of the Republic of Serbia, on the grounds of his suspected involvement in the kidnapping of lawyer Teki Bokshi, a Kosovo Albanian. In the document submitted to Boris Tadić, then acting President of Serbia, Snežana Malović, then acting Minister of Justice, Ivica Dačić, Minister of Internal Affairs and the Supreme Court of Cassation, the HLC requested that judge Stojković be removed from duty, and the extent of his criminal responsibility fully determined.