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 [...]
The First Report on Monitoring the Internal Dialogue on Kosovo (hereinafter: First Report) is one of the outputs of the project „Monitoring and Reporting on Internal Dialogue on Kosovo“ of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, supported by the [...]
Today’s Kosovo is marked by a deepening insecurity and hate and growing social and political chaos. Radical Albanian extremists are working to replace a decade of dominance, violation of rights, violence, persecution, murders and devastation of Albanian homes and settlements, [...]
The latest escalation of armed violence across Kosovo and innocent human casualties in North Mitrovica is likely to turn into broad inter-ethnic clashes. These bloody events testify to the extraordinary strength of the extremists who are trying to stop negotiations [...]
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 [...]
