Human Rights Organizations React to Government’s Position on The Jewel of Medina

We the undersigned human rights organizations are alarmed at the expression of support of the Government of Serbia for the Islamic Community, which used pressure and threats to force the publisher of The Jewel of Medina to withdraw it from shops, thus showing ignorance and disrespect for human rights, and disregard for the state’s obligation to provide guarantees for the freedom of expression as “one of the essential foundations of a democratic society and one of the basic conditions for its progress and for each individual’s self-fulfilment.”


IWPR: Voices of Victims Heard at Belgrade Conference

Organisers hope event will encourage creation of regional commission to establish truth about war crimes in region.

Bosnian war crimes victims told a Belgrade conference this month about their suffering as part of a plan to raise public awareness about atrocities committed during the 1990s Balkans conflicts.


Ethnic Communities in Kosovo in 2007 and 2008

Security Issues, Employment, and Application of Law on the Use of Languages and Anti-discrimination Law in Kosovo; Return of Displaced Persons to Kosovo in 2007 and 2008; Kosovo Institutions Applying the Law on the Use of Languages; Application of Anti-discrimination Law and Law on the Use of Languages in Kosovo Public Companies; Implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages in the Kosovo Education Process.


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