Study visit from activists from Ukraine to the HLC

Representatives of the ‘Justice for Peace in Donbas’ Coalition, comprising several human rights organizations from East Ukraine, began their study visit to the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Monday, May 11^th, 2015. The organizations comprising the ‘Justice for Peace in Donbas’ Coalition have been working intensively on gathering and documenting information on human rights violations and on advocating the rights of the victims of the conflict currently ongoing in the east of Ukraine. Owing to the armed conflict, most of them have been forced during the past year to leave Luhansk and Donetsk and to continue working on documenting human rights violations in the refuge.

(srpski) Hrtkovački sindrom – Zločin bez kazne

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(srpski) Slučaj “Panda”: Vreme nerazjašnjenih ubistava

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History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation?

On Friday April 24th, 2015, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) held a conference History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation? The HLC’s aim was to contribute to the debate on the role of education in the process of dealing with the past and overcoming its heavy legacy, and the actualization of the issue to do with the contents of history textbooks regarding the wars and war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s. Experts in the fields of history, political studies, law, sociology, and philosophy, many of whom have already made their contributions to the analysis of the content of history textbooks, were invited. The participants were invited to offer their answers to the problem of how historiography today values the judicial facts about war crimes, why most of the textbooks ignore these facts, which historical sources are relevant for the wars waged during 1990’s, and what the role of the voluminous material now available about war crimes, collected by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), might be in the creation of a common historical memory of all societies in the former Yugoslavia.

HLC Submitted Comments on Third Draft Action Plan for Chapter 23

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) sent today to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia the comments regarding the third draft Action Plan for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights. The HLC’s comments relate to the development of measures from the Action Plan for the purpose of creating conditions for a more comprehensive prosecution of war crimes and protection of victims’ rights.

Families of the missing persons also have the right to justice

On the occasion of National Day of Missing Persons, the Humanitarian Law Center of Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) requires from the Government of Kosovo more commitment in shedding light on the fate of the missing persons, also requires from the relevant institutions to do more in addressing the criminal responsibility.

(srpski) Istorija, historija, povijest: Mržnja u školskim udžbenicima

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(srpski) Đacima se prećutkuju ratovi i zločini devedesetih

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The Model Strategy for the Prosecution of War Crimes Presented

On April 23^rd 2015 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented the Model Strategy for the Prosecution of War Crimes Committed during and in relation to the Armed Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia (Model Strategy).

Model Strategy for the Prosecution of War Crimes Committed During and In Relation to the Armed Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia

The objective of the Model Strategy for the Prosecution of War Crimes Committed during and in relation to the Armed Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia (Model Strategy) is to stimulate the relevant institutions to adopt an official state strategy for the prosecution of war crimes committed in the armed conflicts during the 1990’s on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and provide a comprehensive, informative and objective contribution to the production of this Strategy.