State Responsible for Police Torture in Prijepolje in 1993

A First Instance Court in Belgrade has delivered a judgment requiring the Republic of Serbia to pay the sum of RSD360,000 (Serbian Dinars) to Sead Rovčanin, a Bosniak from the village of Gračanica, in the municipality of Prijepolje. The court found the state responsible for the torture inflicted on Mr. Rovčanin in October 1993 by members of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Interior (MOI). The Humanitarian Law Center believes that this judgment, should it become final, will bring only partial satisfaction to Mr. Rovčanin as he has waited 19 years for recognition of the injustice that he suffered  and because the perpetrators have have yet to be punished and are still working as police officers.


Visit of Norwegian Members of Parliament to HLC

A meeting between representatives of civil society organizations and the delegation of the Kingdom of Norway in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe led by the Head of the delegation. Ms. Karin Woldseth and the Deputy Head of the delegation, Ms. Lisa Christoffsen was held on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Vesna Petrović from the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Vladimir Petronijević from Group 484, Dušan Janjić from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Ivana Stanković from Praxis, and Milan Antonijević from YUCOM attended the meeting besides Nataša Kandić and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC.


Youth Reconciliation Ambassadors Visit HLC

A group of participants in the program Youth Reconciliation Ambassadors organized by the Youth Education Committee from Belgrade visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. The program gathers young individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia who exchange experiences of their societies in the processes of transition and reconciliation, with a special focus on the European integration as a supplemental mechanism in these processes.


A Step towards a Solution of the Problem of Legally Invisible Persons

Law on Amendments to the Law on Non-Contentious Procedure, adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on 31st August 2012, prescribes a procedure for determination of date and place of birth of persons not registered in birth registry books. Thus, the first step was made towards solving the problem of several thousands of legally invisible persons in Serbia. Through the aforementioned procedure, the persons who do not fulfil conditions for registration in birth registry book in an administrative procedure will be able to exercise their rights through a separate court procedure which recognizes the particulars of the problems they are facing.


Coalition for RECOM calls for an end to silence on secret graves and the fate of missing persons

On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, the Coalition for RECOM calls on the governments of post-Yugoslav countries to break the silence about secret graves, because that silence is the major contributor to the public culture of silence about what happened in the past.


Kandić: I have a good reason to meet with Nikolic again

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.


Students from Princeton University Visiting HLC

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.


Meeting of HLC Representatives With Ombudsman

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.


ICC issued a decision on reparations for Lubanga’s victims

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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