This statement was the result of discussions at the workshop organized on 14 September 2002 by the Forum for Ethnic Relations (FER) and the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), at the Media Center in Belgrade, as well as a [...]
On behalf of the undersigned non-governmental organizations, we inform you that on Sunday, 16 March 16, at 12 am in Belgrade and all the cities across Serbia, the activists will hand out stickers with the message: Enough crime! Citizens of [...]
The Belgrade-based Forum for Ethnic Relations, headed by the noted scholar Dr. Dusan Janjic, announced that its offices were invaded, searched, and sealed by special police forces on Tuesday, June 6 on the pretext of searching for financial records. Neither [...]
The crimes committed on September 11 2001 in New York and Washington DC, took thousands of innocent lives and brought up the issue of common responsibility for combating terrorist activity throughout the world, including the Balkans. Remindful of the [...]
The Forum for Ethnic Relations reminded that the increased economic and diplomatic cooperation between our country and the PRC has in recent years brought thousands of Chinese citizens to our country. Vast majority of Chinese citizens have come to work, [...]
The Forum for Ethnic Relations (FER), the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), in cooperation with the City Parliament - Free City of Vršac (GP), organized a workshop in Vršac, at Hotel Serbia, on the subject of the Role of [...]
In the coming weeks the process for defining future relationships will enter a quality new phase. This is the stage of political negotiations in which positions will be clarified. This could be compared with the situation in Czechoslovakia where the [...]
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Mr. Max van der Stoel and associates met with Dr Dušan Janjić, Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations and Dr. Steven Lilić, consultant. The meeting was devoted to issues of ethnic relations, the [...]
The discussion was focused on the possibilities of cooperation in the exchange of experts and OSCE support to concrete projects in legislative regulation of status and improvement of the protection of rights of national communities in FRY and Serbia. It [...]
Raid by the financial police accompanied by Special Forces, as well as the unlawful closing and locking FER offices, is the latest in a series of unconstitutional and unlawful raids on non-governmental organizations and political dissidents. The fact that [...]
