Fond za Humanitarno Pravo
Budget
€25 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
€1,946,014
Mission & Goals
The Humanitarian Law Centre of Serbia (HLC) was established in 1992 to document human rights violations during the armed conflict. Humanitarian Law Centre supports post-Yugoslav societies in promoting the rule of law and acceptance of the legacy of mass human rights violations, establishing the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators, serving justice, and preventing recurrence. Realisation of these goals in the region implies going through a comprehensive and multifaceted transitional justice process. First and foremost, victims of war crimes need to fulfil their right to justice, truth, and reparation. Second, this process encompasses bringing those responsible for the crimes to court and unravelling the institutional and state structures that were instrumental in the systematic human rights violations of the 1990s wars. Finally, awareness of the crimes that took place and recognition of the victims in broader society are crucial so that such crimes do not happen again.
EU Legislative Interests
- EU Strategy on victims’ rights (2020-2025) - Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA - COM(2021) 110 final: COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the EU’s humanitarian action: new challenges, same principles - EP (2019/2819(RSP)), The importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe; - DG NEAR: EU Enlargement Policy
Communication Activities
1. The ICTY and the investigation, reconstruction and prosecution of the crimes against cultural and religious heritage - project (https://heritage.sensecentar.org/) 2. The Kosovo Memory Book (KMB) Database (publicly available) 3. Policy Paper: The 1990s Wars in Former Yugoslavia in History Education (EU funded - chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.hlc-rdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Policy-paper-The-1990s-Wars-in-Former-Yugoslavia-in-History-Education.pdf) 4. Extensive victims data base: the HLC’s Archive contains, among other items, a great number of documents from war crimes trials held in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a media archive from the 1990s, and audio and video recordings of ICTY trials, as well as documents which were presented as evidence in ICTY trials. Based on the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Secretariat of the ICTY, HLC began copying the public archive of this court in February 2005 to create conditions for researchers, journalists, victims, victims’ family members, and interested individuals from the territory of the former Yugoslavia to have access to this valuable material. 5. RECOM Initiative
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
(selection) 1. United Nations, the Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC) - consultative status since 2010. Link: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.hlc-rdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Resolutions-and-decisions-adopted-2010.pdf 2. Membership in the Victim Support Europe (VSE) Link:https://victim-support.eu/members/humanitarian-law-center/ 3. Affiliate (former awardee): The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: Link: https://www.rbf.org/grantees/humanitarian-law-center 4. Membership in the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. Link: https://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/
Organisation Members
Affiliated members: Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo - Link: https://www.hlc-kosovo.org/en
Additional Information
Contract number: ICSP/2020/420-477 , project: : "RECOM Reconciliation Network"; Contract number: IPA 2019/413-565, project: "Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in War" Contract number: 2017/394-747, project: "Regional CSO Activism for Regional Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia - In Support of RECOM"
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.