Press Releases

Stockholm, Washington, Utrecht 20 February 2008 Dear Sirs, We would like to express our deepest concern about the latest threats on human rights defenders in...

22.02.2008.

I personally had a chance to observe the events happening in front of the Turkish Embassy before, during, and after the Serbian protest against the...

22.02.2008.

The International Bar Association (IBA)’s Human Rights Institute has expressed grave concern for the safety of prominent human rights defenders in Serbia, following comments made...

21.02.2008.

The radicalization of the Serbian political scene since Kosovo’s declaration of independence on Sunday has put the country’s few, though dedicated, human rights defenders and...

21.02.2008.

Amnesty International is calling on the Serbian authorities and specifically Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and President Boris Tadić to urgently condemn attacks on human rights...

20.02.2008.

I am aware that I do not have support in Serbia for what I do and that there are a lot of people within the...

31.01.2008.

Members of the Advisory Committee on the Archives of the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ACA) visited Belgrade at the end of...

29.01.2008.

A Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) attorney filed three compensation lawsuits against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Mušan Džebo, Enes Bogilović, Ahmet Kamenica, Mujo...

15.01.2008.

In view of the news published on the B92 web page on 12 December 2007, which stated that Jovan Mirilo “provided the Humanitarian Law Center...

18.12.2007.

Between 12 and 15 December 2007, Francisco Soberon was a guest of HLC in Belgrade and participated in the Seminar: Reparations – legal and moral...

18.12.2007.

On 20 November 2007, it will be sixteen years since the war crime at the Ovčara farm near Vukovar was committed. Not a single person...

20.11.2007.

HLC: In light of your recent visit to Belgrade, 25-26 October 2007, how would you assess the authorities’ level of cooperation with your Office? Transitional...

10.11.2007.

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor raised an indictment on August 23, 2006 against Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, members of Special Police Units...

10.11.2007.

Vesna Bojičić, a Voice of America journalist, has been physically assaulted in Kosovo for the fifth time since June 1999. She was assaulted for the...

22.10.2007.

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Hina Jilani, issued the following statement on her preliminary findings...

19.09.2007.