Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights students visited HLC

On April 20, 2018, thirty students of the Master’s programme at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), as part of their study visit to Serbia.

Višnja Šijačić and Meris Mušanović talked with the students. The two are HLC lawyers, and they presented the organization’s work on documenting human rights violations during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and its engagement in achieving criminal justice and reparations for victims.

The students were particularly interested in the HLC’s methods of investigating and documenting human rights violations, and representing victims in war crimes proceedings, but also in learning how much the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia affected war crimes trials before the national courts of the countries in the region.