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

In order to provide training for all Vojvodina Ombudsperson office staff members on international and domestic human rights standards BCHR organised two trainigs. Trainings were held in Novi Sad , March 17- 19 and April 7-8. Lectures on this seminars were experts from Council of Europe, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, representatives of judiciary (Vida Petrovic Skero–president of Supreme Court, Gordana Mihajlovic – president of II municipal Court, Leposava Karamarkovic).

Donor: IFA Media-Im-Pakt and the Stability Pact for South East Europe
Duration of project: September 2005 – March 2006

The purpose of the project was to create the first high-quality online youth magazine in Serbia that would serve both as a reliable online source of youth-related information and as a ground stone for developing an editorial/technical mechanism for the future printed “UPS!” Magazine. For six issues of e-Magazine that were produced all of the articles were produced in cooperation between the experienced and one or two inexperienced journalists. This way the young journalists  have been able to learn from their older colleague on a real-life example. (more…)

Donor: Balkan Trust, SEEYN, CCFD, NPA,
Duration of project: January 2005 – June 2006

Since 2001, “U pravu si!” has been the most appreciated guide through legal system for Serbian youth. The purpose of the “U pravu si!” project was to strengthen civil society and the development of bottom-up democracy. Until now there have been two major printed editions and several sub- and special editions of the Guide (e.g. “U pravu si!” online, “U pravu si!” on the EXIT festival), which have jointly built a very strong project identity. (more…)

Donor: Olof Palme Center
Duration of project: January – December 2005

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights organised the following activities: the annual Training for Trainers Human Rights School in Belgrade in October 2005; five training seminars for participants of the Schools of Human Rights for Future Lecturers from previous years (25-27 April, 28-30 April, 6-8 May, 9-11 May and 16-18 May, respectively); publishing of the 204-paged Collection – New Wave, a collection of the best papers by the alumni of the Training for Trainers School of Human Rights. (more…)

Donor: French Catholic Committee Against Hunger and for Development – CCFD
Duration of the project: January – December 2005

The target group of the project was secondary school students in Serbia who are studying French in their schools. The project encompassed around 100 secondary school students and approximately 10 professors of French language and civic education, as direct beneficiaries. After four seminars, the specific goals of the project have been successfully met: Increased human rights education awareness in secondary schools and enhanced interest of young people in human rights, introduction has been made through a proactive role of the students to human rights issues, atmosphere of tolerance and teamwork through project activities has been created and dissemination of knowledge about human rights and Serbian students were provided with immediate experience of encounters with representatives of foreign countries and thus overcome the effects of the international isolation to which Serbia was exposed in the 1990’s. (more…)