Donor: Swedish Helsinki Committee
Duration of the project: June 2005 – January 2006

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights published 500 copies of the compilation of the European Court of Human Rights judgements on discrimination. The compilation of judgements contributed to the raising knowledge and awareness on prohibition of discrimination standards and to their better application in SaM. Moreover, this publication would serve as a useful tool for the advocacy, campaigning, promotion and protection of equal treatment.

Donor: Council of Europe (CoE)
Duration of the project: Jun 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with CoE, organized seminar for private practising lawyers. This seminar took place in Belgrade from 16 to 18 June 2005. The participants were members of the legal professionals from various Serbian cities. The  main goals of the seminar were to provide an introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of the European Convention on Human Rights, European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) and Council of Europe; to examine key ECtHR principles and rights from the Convention with particular relevance to domestic legal provisions; to familiarize participants with the application of international human rights standards into domestic law and practice, focusing on jurisprudence of ECtHR and its relevance for domestic trials. (more…)

Donor: ABA – CEELI
Duration of project: Jun – December 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised four three-day seminars. Seminars took place in Valjevo, Zrenjanin, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad The project goal was to provide magistrate judges and prosecutors with the necessary knowledge and skills in the fields of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, including familiarity with the jurisprudence and actual practice in Serbia and abroad, as well as of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and supervisory bodies of the international human rights treaties.
Beneficiaries of the project are: prosecutors, deputy prosecutors, prosecutors’ assistants, trainees, magistrate judges, assistant and trainees. The number of beneficiaries is 100 members of the judicial system in Serbia.

Donor: European Agency for Reconstruction and Open Society Fund
Duration of the project: May 2005 – February 2006

The main object of this project was to raise awareness and the level of knowledge among secondary-school students in Serbia about the European Union and the prospects of integration processes in Europe, as well as about the benefits for Serbia after association and accession to EU. The aim of the project was to enable the students to acquire necessary knowledge about those issues so as to take part in public debates about them. Goal was to make them more interested in these matters as well as to try to direct their aspirations toward supporting the necessary reforms needed for accession of Serbia to EU. (more…)

Donor:  International Aid Network (IAN)
Duration of project: January – July 2005

Goal of this project was to strengthen and empower forcibly mobilised refugees through continual provision of psychological, medical and legal rehabilitation, in-court representation in their claims for compensation of damages, as well as produce recommendations on good practices in dealing with these issues, increase the awareness about the problem of torture and effect positive legislative change in terms of torture incrimination. (more…)

Donor: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Duration of project: March 2005

Belgrade centre for Human Rights and OSCE  have organised seminar : „Training on Rules and Procedures before the European Court for Human Rights аnd analisis of domestic cases“. Lecturers were experts from OSCE and Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, as well as foreign experts. The main goal of seminar was to itroduce standards of European Conventions for Human Rights to lawyers that deal with proprety problems of reffugees in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Part of teh seminar was devoted to analisis of Protocol 1 of European Convention.