Utrecht Declaration on Academic Freedom

September 30, 2016

 UTRECHT DECLARATION ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM Meeting at Utrecht University for our annual conference, we, the Association of Human Rights Institutes ( AHRI), deplore the actions and threats of actions of an increasing number of States to restrain and even foreclose academic freedom, in the name of security, public order, counter-terrorism, counter-crime or counter-extremism, through a variety of...
Seminar: Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion

September 22, 2016

Representatives of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights participated in the seminar Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion in Brussels. Seminar was organized by theEuropean Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in cooperation with Council of Europe and the U.S. Embassy to the European Union.
ECRE/AIDA Press Release: Admissibility, responsibility and safety in European asylum procedures

September 8, 2016

In the implementation of their international obligations, European and EU states have devised sophisticated asylum systems based on complex procedural tools. In some cases, tools are designed and used for the purpose of avoiding responsibility for refugees, because they allow claims to be dismissed as inadmissible before looking at the substance of the claim.
Report on the Right to Asylum in Serbia for the period April-June 2016

July 21, 2016

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR)continued implementing the project focusing on the extension of free legal aidto asylum seekers with UNHCR’s support in 2016.
Press Release on the Results of the Evaluation of the War Crimes Prosecutor Candidates’ Programmes

June 29, 2016

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) is concerned by the results of the evaluation of the programmes submitted by candidates for the post of War Crimes Prosecutor, which was conducted by the Commission for the Preparation and Evaluation of the Written Test and the Evaluation of the Programmes on the Organisation and Improvement of the Work of the Public Prosecution Service (hereinafter: Com...
Co-operation and the Governance of Migration in Western Balkans and Central European Countries

June 24, 2016

European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA), with the support of Central European Initiative (CEI), organized an international seminar on 20-21 June 2016 in Skopje on the topic "Co-operation and good governance, with migration in western and central European countries", in which the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights took part.