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In the period from September until December 2008, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) conducted a research on the implementation of the Law on the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Communities and Their Members in the Republic of Kosovo, with special focus on the creation of the Consultative Council for Communities within the Kosovo President’s Cabinet. This law was passed on 13 March 2008 and entered into force on 15 June 2008, while the decree of the President of Kosovo, on establishment of the Consultative Council, was made on 15 September 2008.... >>
HLC-Kosovo is the only nongovernmental organization monitoring trials of war crimes and ethnically motivated criminal offences in Kosovo. In 2007, HLC-Kosovo monitored 117 main hearings in 21 cases before municipal and district courts, as well as four cases before the Supreme Court of Kosovo. The persons examined in these [monitored] cases included 119 witnesses (two of whom were protected witnesses) and five ballistic experts and neuropsychiatrists. In all cases the indictments were brought and represented by international prosecutors. All the chamber presidents are international judges, with local judges serving as trial chamber members.... >>
In the period following the toppling of Slobodan Milošević, the transitional government supported domestic war crimes trials, but it soon became clear that serious impediments existed. Police was not willing to share its data on war crimes perpetrators with prosecutors, primarily because most of them belonged to the police.... >>
Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its
predecessor, and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.
Hannah Arendt, ''Eichmann in Jerusalem''
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Humanitarian Law Center 2007 Annual report
Date:30/01/2008 15:38

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) helps societies in the territory of the former Yugoslavia to establish the rule of law and to come to terms with the legacy of massive human rights violations in order to prevent their recurrence, establish the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators and ensure that justice is done....
Humanitarian Law Center Annual Report 2006
Date:11/06/2007 09:32

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is actively helping countries formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia establish the rule of law and accept the legacy of their past marked by mass human rights abuses committed during armed conflicts on their territories, in order to prevent the recurrence of such crimes, establish the criminal responsibility of perpetrators, and serve justice. In order to do this, in 2006 not only did HLC continue implementing transitional justice projects initiated several years ago, but it also started new projects such as reparations for victims of human rights abuses committed during armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. All projects support the programmatic structure of the organisation, which comprises three pillars: Documentation and Memory, Justice and Institutional Reform, and Public Information and Outreach....