This year marks25 years since the military and police action “Storm” (Oluja), during which Croatian military forces committed numerous crimes against Serbs living in the...
How and why does wartime violence against civilians occur in the communities that have lived together in peace for a long time? Why does this...
In June 2020, the European Commission (EC) announced its so-called “non-paper”, i.e. a semi-annual report on the current situation with Chapter 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental...
The first episode of “Memory Cultures in Dialogue”, an podcast of the Humanitarian Law Center, has been released. What are memory cultures? What is the...
Several Bosniaks were saved by courageous interventions from individual Serbs who defied potential risks to help neighbours during wartime in the town of Vlasenica in...
Two convicted war criminals hope to be elected as MPs at next month’s polls in Serbia, while several other people who are wanted by the...
The SENSE Centre for Transitional Justice website has been updated and upgraded by including the SENSE Agency Archive 1998-2019. Thus, the digital online presentation of...
The experience of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission shows that much more clarity is needed before a similar process can be applied successfully to...
Men who were raped or sexually assaulted during the 1992-95 Bosnian war have long been reluctant to speak out for fear of stigmatisation, but now...
On April 22, 2020, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor (OWCP) against several unidentified...
Over 120 children are estimated to have been killed during the 1992-95 war in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, where attacks continued even after the...
Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed...
On Thursday, February 27, 2020, it will be 27 years since the crime in Štrpci (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in which members of the Army of...
Students attending the Master’s Programme at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on February 12th,...
The Coalition for RECOM, which is campaigning to establish a regional truth commission for the Yugoslav wars, is working to create the first full list...
War criminals were celebrated, verdicts convicting Serbs were questioned and atrocities were denied, while Serbian prosecutors again failed in 2019 to indict any high-ranking suspects...
