The doctrine of “command responsibility” was established by the Hague Conventions IV (1907) and X (1907) and applied for the first time by the German...
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) are deeply concerned over the irresponsible behavior demonstrated by the parties to the...
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) are deeply concerned over the irresponsible behavior demonstrated by the parties to the...
The new trial of Saša Cvjetan before the Belgrade District Court is the first for war crimes in Kosovo in which ethnic Albanians have testified...
The head of the Serbian Government’s CommunicationsBureau, Vladimir Popović, has filed a suit with the First Municipal Court in Belgrade, seeking two million dinars in...
The trial of Milan Lukić, Oliver Krsmanović, Dragutin Dragićević and Djordje Šević, who are accused of a war crime against the civilian population under Article...
The Belgrade BETA news agency has denied the Humanitarian Law Center’s report that it took a letter by Gradimir Nalić, an attorney and formerly advisor...
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is deeply concerned at the failure of the competent state bodies and political parties to react to the abusive and...
On 11 October this year, the Military Court in Niš, central Serbia, handed down the first ruling in a case of a war crime committed...
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) welcomes the decision of former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić to take responsibility for her conduct and actions during the...
The Humanitarian Law Center is pleased to note that the recent conviction of Ivan Nikolic puts an end to the longstanding practice of allowing war...
Aware of the measures taken by state agencies since the change of government in October 2000, the Humanitarian Law Center (“HLC”) nonetheless considers them inadequate...
The Humanitarian Law Center points out that the District Court in Niš sentenced two Kosovo Albanians to long terms of imprisonment in spite of the...
It is easier to breathe in Serbia now. I recently saw a policeman beating a hasty retreat down the street, running as if his life...
