Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2014 and 2015

Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2014 and 2015

dvogodisnji_izvestaj_korice_engThe biannual report on war crimes trials in Serbia offers an insight into all war crimes trials conducted  before the Higher Court and the Appellate Court in Belgrade, as well as before the courts of general jurisdiction. The report gives a brief overview of proceedings for 27 cases, as well as the basic findings of the HLC regarding the cases.

V Forum for Transitional Justice: History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation?

V Forum for Transitional Justice: History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation?

Forum_5Forum for Transitional Justice #5 is exploring the issues of the role of education in the process of dealing with the past and reconciliation, particularly the history textbooks’ content in post-conflict societies and processes of democratization.

Press Statement On the Occasion of Marking the 23rd Anniversary of the Crime in Štrpci

Press Statement On the Occasion of Marking the 23rd Anniversary of the Crime in Štrpci

Povodom 23. godišnjice zločina u ŠtrpcimaOn Saturday, February 27th, 2016, it will be 23 years since the commission of the crime in Štrpci, when members of the Republic of Srpska Army took 20 passengers, who were civilians and non-Serbs, from the train travelling from Belgrade to Bar at the Štrpci Railway Station, and subsequently killed them. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Women in Black and the Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms take this opportunity to remind the public that the victims’ families are still waiting for judicial justice in Serbia and the recognition of the status of family members of civilian victims of war.

Revealing the fate of missing persons a prerequisite for reconciliation and establishing the rule of law in Serbia

Revealing the fate of missing persons a prerequisite for reconciliation and establishing the rule of law in Serbia

Resavanje sudbine nestalih licaThe third in a row of meetings on the importance of including transitional justice in the Republic of Serbia’s European integration process was held on February 24th, 2016, in the Humanitarian Law Center’s (HLC) Library. Representatives from the embassies of Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovakia, United States of America, Croatia, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from the OSCE Mission to Serbia, along with a liaison officer from Kosovo participated in the meeting.

SIT Students’ Visit

SIT Students’ Visit

Studenti SIT u poseti FHP-uStudents of the School for International Training (SIT) visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Tuesday, 23 February 2016. The students attend various universities in the United States, and they are visiting Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo as part of the SIT Peace Study Programme organized within the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications.