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26/03/2018
Animated movie about the Self-Representation Guide
CHAPTER 23 – JUDICIARY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
07/11/2016
Report from the conference on the implementation of activities proscribed by the Action plan for chapter 23
CHAPTER 23 – JUDICIARY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
25/07/2016
Recommendations from expert consultations with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independance of judges and lawyers, Monica Pinto
News
18/07/2016
Milan Antonijevic on the state of human rights in the UN General Assembly
Reports
25/03/2016
YUCOM 2015 – Annual Report

Focus

PRESS RELEASE ON THE DRAFT VERSION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Withdrawal from Constitutional consultations

Conference “Rule of Law, Access to Justice”

News

13/09/2018 0

Civil Society Platform for Democracy and Human Rights

As noted in the 2017 – 2019 House of Lords Report on the UK and future of the Western Balkans, “Instability in the region is driven by serious and deep-rooted governance challenges” – challenges which have been compounded by the practice of supporting stability over democracy. This has contributed to a rising “stabilitocracy” through which authoritarian governments have consolidated “their patronage networks, ensuring near invincibility at elections in years to come”…

05/09/2018 Milan Antonijević nominated for UIA Rule of Law Award
19/07/2018 Regional Consultation for the Western European and other States and Eastern European States
18/05/2018 OPEN LETTER TO THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATES PARTICIPATING ON THE SOFIA SUMMIT
26/03/2018 Animated movie about the Self-Representation Guide

Media Coverage

13/09/2018 0

Balkan Nationalists Use T-Shirts as Political Fashion Statement

Political T-shirts promoting nationalist ideas, glorifying war criminals and celebrating right-wing leaders from World War II are widely available in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

When a nationalist T-shirt shop and online store in the Croatian city of Split wanted to celebrate the World War II fascist Ustasa movement without getting into trouble with the authorities, it came up with a novel idea.

12/09/2018 Lawyers criticise amendments to Serbian constitution
28/08/2018 Opposition Party Pushes Serbia to Change Petition Law
27/07/2018 Serbia’s Rightist MPs Pay no Price for Hate Speech
31/05/2018 Vojislav Seselj Criticised for Visiting Serbian PM’s Killer
23/05/2018 Serbia’s Road to the EU Goes via Kosovo

Press releases

13/09/2018 0

THE NEW DRAFT TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS DOES NOT EXCLUDE POLITICAL INFLUENCE ON THE JUDICIARY

The Ministry of Justice has, to a certain extent, harmonized the draft text of the constitutional amendments with the recommendations of the Venice Commission. However, it needs to be pointed out that it has been harmonized in accordance with minimum standards, while other, more advanced solutions have not been taken into account.

Projects

16/03/2018 0

Empowering the reporting on rule of law standards in Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM is conducting a regional project under the auspices of the Balkan Regional Network for the Rule of Law (BRRLN) in cooperation with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Macedonia, Tirana Legal Aid Society (TLAS) from Albania, Balkans Policy Research Group (BPRG) from Kosovo and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights from Bosnia and Herzegovina.