Full Coverage: Law

28.06.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre presented its Transitional Justice Report for Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo 1999-2005. In her presentation of the Report, Natasa Kandic, the Centre Director said that Serbia failed to create responsible institutions, which is the main condition for the country “...to face the past and give justice”.

27.06.2006 The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jens Modvig, marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today by calling for rehabilitation resources to be made available to torture victims and their families.

27.06.2006 The financing of election campaign is the main source of any future corruption and should be made as transparent as possible, to avoid a situation in which the anonymous financiers will come to the political parties and demand favours in return for the support. Only a faction of the political parties have publicly disclosed their sources of financing and their greatest supporters in the business sector.

22.06.2006 The Commission for Coordination of Youth Issues in B&H, which includes representatives of institution on national, entity and District of Brcko level and representatives of youth non-governmental sector, will start the initiative to adopt a Law on Youth Issues, on national, entity and BH Federation.

20.06.2006 On the occasion of recent demonstration of hate-speech in Serbian Skupstina (the parliament), when Zoran Krasic, MP from the Serb Radical Party, called Ivana Dulic-Markovic, Minister of Agriculture, an "ustasha" from the pulpit, a group of eight NGOs printed a leaflet to remind the public about previous cases of Radicals' involvement in similar incidents.

15.06.2006 A working meeting Violence Against Women in Post-Conflict Situations: Case Study Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on Tuesday, June 13, in Sarajevo, gathered representatives of Government ministries, Courts, Prosecution offices, women NGOs and international organizations, the Police and Gender Centres in B&H, with the goal to create reccommendations for B&H presentation in Brussels on the issue of violence against women.

09.06.2006 As reported by the media, the Members of the Sabor (Croatian parliament) from the national minorities could revoke their support fot he changes and amendments in the Criminal Code proposed by the Government, if hate-crimes are not included in the text of proposed amendments.

09.06.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre filed criminal charges against the anonymous author and performer of the song titled “Let’s Cut Some Throats”, on charges of inciting of racial, religious and national hatred and intolerance.

09.06.2006 Norwegian mediators say they have been unable to bring the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels together for talks being held in Oslo.

06.06.2006 The former Norwegian cruise liner with its toxic cargo of asbestos has been allowed to enter Indian waters, but permission to scrap it at Alang shipyard in Gujarat will be given only once its contents are inspected.

05.06.2006 The latest survey implemented by the Centre of Civil Communications shows that the corruption in the area of construction reaches to the highest levels of local and central Government. According to the survey, the construction of the more than 10,000 illegal buildings in Macedonia, built since 2000, involve corruption in several stages – from the actual building to the ultimate legalization.

02.06.2006 In spite of the decision of the Supreme Court of Serbia, the Security and Information Agency (BIA) didnÂ’t provide, within the legal deadline, the number of people whose communications it wiretapped in 2005, says the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.

02.06.2006 On 24 May 2006, after having received information from the administration of the Detention Center in Mitrovica (hereinafter DCM) about a hunger strike in their facility, the representatives of the Ombudsperson Institution met with the Director of the DCM, located in the northern part of Mitrovica, where they received first hand information about the reasons for which eleven detainees and prisoners of Serbian ethnicity started their hunger strike.

02.06.2006 The criminal justice system continues to fail victims in Kosovo, despite almost seven years of international administration, Human Rights Watch said in a new report - Not on the Agenda: The Continuing Failure to Address Accountability in Kosovo Post-March 2004 - released today. KosovoÂ’s future status is currently the subject of intense negotiations mediated by the international community.