Bárbara Alejarra   –          On the 3rd of February, the International Court of Justice – ICJ – decided the case of Croatia v. Serbia, regarding the allegation of genocide during Croatian war of Secession. In 1999, Croatia filed a case before the ICJ to claim for compensation for the damage caused by the targeting of […]

Nikola Hajdin It is very well known that the ICC has under its jurisdiction four so-called core crimes. One of them has never had the chance to be subject of an indictment as the definition for the crime of Aggression was adopted only in 2010 in Kampala. Countries agreed on a few amended articles of […]

Nikola Hajdin   In my last blog about the children who have lost their father during the Bosnian war, I have put forward a few issues that I believe affect most directly the quality of life of those who are part of this specific group of citizens. In this piece the focus will be on […]

Angela Barisic Airing on selected theatres and Netflix on October 24th, E-team was a success claiming many awards. In this documentary we get to tag along on the journey of four members of Human Rights Watch’s Emergencies Team (E-team). Anna, Ole, Fred and Peter are all trained to deal with unfolding crises, flying to hotspots […]

Nikola Hajdin During the war in Bosnia, both children and adolescents experienced: ‘wounding of one’s father’, ‘father loss because of killing or missing and loss of immediate or extended family member(s)’, ‘unwillingly leaving home’, ‘separation from family and friends’, ‘forced expulsion from home’, ‘living in collective refugee settlements’, ‘refugee problems and life in a small […]

Goran Miletić This year marks a 20-years anniversary since homosexuality became decriminalised in Serbia. As a law student, I remember drawing the question of “unnatural fornication” in my Criminal Law exam. Then, in 1993, I thoroughly explained to my professor what constituted that ‘crime’. There are no words to describe the feeling of saying, out […]

Angela Barisic   Matthew Scott is UK-qualified solicitor and a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law at Lund University in Sweden. He will also be speaking at the Jus Humanis Winter Forum which will explore the topic “Right to Sexuality” on 20 November at 11.30 at Lilla Gråbrödersgatan 3C . His lecture will be […]

Vasco P. da Silva Within the political and legal framework provided by the Council of Europe, several recommendations have been presented to its 47 Member States concerning the topic of the LGBT rights. The most crucial has been the request for signature and ratification of Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights […]

Ashkhen Kazaryan The ban on gay propaganda has been one of the major discussion points in the human rights conversation in Russia. Below we’ll go through main legislation adopted in Russia and the problems arising from it. The first legislative prohibition of “propaganda of homosexuality” in Russia was adopted in 2006 in the Ryazan region. […]