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A regional non-governmental human rights and humanitarian law organization, the Humanitarian Law Center was founded in 1992 following the outbreak of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The HLC is based in Belgrade and has regional offices in Priština and Prizren in Kosovo, Novi Sad in Vojvodina (opened in 1997), and in Podgorica, Montenegro (opened 1999). Over 70 lawyers, attorneys, researchers, analysts and other dedicated professionals work for the HLC on a full- or part-time basis.
Since its founding, the HLC has researched killings, disappearances, camps, torture of prisoners of war, and the patterns of ethnic cleansing in times of armed conflict by interviewing witnesses and victims. Upon collecting a large body of documentation on war crimes, the HLC in August 1994 began cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. And, as of June 1999, it has been cooperating also with Prosecutor's Offices in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, providing them with information and expert assistance with regard to war crimes trials.
Considering that the gathering of documentation on war crimes is of importance both for bringing to justice war criminals and researching the recent past, the HLC devotes major attention to archiving its material and creating conditions for the regional integration of such documentation.
The HLC plans to become an advanced center for the documentation and research of human rights violations during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and to initiate the establishment of similar centers in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. By pooling their efforts and documentation, these centers would make a significant contribution to establishing a regional approach to the past.
The HLC strongly advocates regional reconciliation through reconciliation with history, taking of responsibility for the crimes committed in the recent past, and restoring the human dignity of the victims whatever their ethnicity.
Since its founding, the HLC has made the human rights of ethnic and political minorities in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo a focus of particular concern. When the armed conflict in Kosovo ended, the HLC continued its regular and systematic monitoring of the human rights of ethnic minorities, informing the public of its findings, and making recommendations to state agencies for the promotion of minority rights.
The HLC brings out publications on the past in its Spotlight Reports series, and publishes documents of The Hague Tribunal, national courts, and the European Court for Human Rights in its Documents series.
The HLC also organizes conferences on topics such as war crimes trials, reconciliation, and violation of human and minority rights. A recent HLC effort is the launching of broad-based public debates on human rights abuses in the past with the aim of contributing to the process of facing the past. The HLC's hopes thereby to raise the awareness of politicians as to the importance and need of a parliamentary debate on this issue.
Since its founding, the HLC has researched killings, disappearances, camps, torture of prisoners of war, and the patterns of ethnic cleansing in times of armed conflict by interviewing witnesses and victims. Upon collecting a large body of documentation on war crimes, the HLC in August 1994 began cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. And, as of June 1999, it has been cooperating also with Prosecutor's Offices in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, providing them with information and expert assistance with regard to war crimes trials.
Considering that the gathering of documentation on war crimes is of importance both for bringing to justice war criminals and researching the recent past, the HLC devotes major attention to archiving its material and creating conditions for the regional integration of such documentation.
The HLC plans to become an advanced center for the documentation and research of human rights violations during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and to initiate the establishment of similar centers in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. By pooling their efforts and documentation, these centers would make a significant contribution to establishing a regional approach to the past.
The HLC strongly advocates regional reconciliation through reconciliation with history, taking of responsibility for the crimes committed in the recent past, and restoring the human dignity of the victims whatever their ethnicity.
Since its founding, the HLC has made the human rights of ethnic and political minorities in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo a focus of particular concern. When the armed conflict in Kosovo ended, the HLC continued its regular and systematic monitoring of the human rights of ethnic minorities, informing the public of its findings, and making recommendations to state agencies for the promotion of minority rights.
The HLC brings out publications on the past in its Spotlight Reports series, and publishes documents of The Hague Tribunal, national courts, and the European Court for Human Rights in its Documents series.
The HLC also organizes conferences on topics such as war crimes trials, reconciliation, and violation of human and minority rights. A recent HLC effort is the launching of broad-based public debates on human rights abuses in the past with the aim of contributing to the process of facing the past. The HLC's hopes thereby to raise the awareness of politicians as to the importance and need of a parliamentary debate on this issue.
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