Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms

CDHRF was founded in December of 1989 with the goal to defend and promote human rights and freedoms, foreseen in UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international documents on human rights. CDHRF investigates and testifies on human rights violation and demands from all that exercise power to reject the abusing practices and to respect international documents on human rights and freedoms. CDHRF is a member of the International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) and also a member of the Steering Committee of Balkans Human Rights Network (BHRN). CDHRF is organized into 5 Regional Centers with 30 municipal offices, and has members from all ethnic groups living in Kosovo. CDHRF publishes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports in Albanian, English and Serbian. CDHRF is also intensively involved in cooperating with the International Crime Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.