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Emina Ćerimović

Emina Ćerimović

Researcher, Disability Rights Division Follow @EminaHRW

Emina Ćerimović works on issues related to disability rights, discrimination, and migration, focusing on the Western Balkans, as well as on advocacy initiatives with the UN. Ćerimović has investigated police abuse of migrants and asylum seekers in Serbia and Macedonia and has researched institutionalization of children and adults with disabilities in Croatia and Serbia. Ćerimović holds a law degree from the University of Sarajevo and a LLM degree in Human Rights with a Specialization in EU Law from the Central European University in Budapest. She speaks Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Swedish.

Articles Authored

  • March 14, 2017 Commentary

    What Every Country Can Do to Make Schools Safe

    Published in Foreign Policy In Focus
  • March 7, 2017 Journal Article

    Children with disabilities: Deprivation of liberty in the name of care and treatment

    Published in Protecting Children Against Torture in Detention: Global Solutions
  • February 27, 2017 Commentary

    A Day to Remember That Every Child Deserves a Chance

    Published in Inter Press Service
  • September 1, 2016 Dispatches

    Serbian Children with Disabilities Left Out of School

  • August 30, 2016 Commentary

    Remembering Victims of a Mass Killing in Japan

    Published in Yahoo! Japan News
  • August 4, 2016 Commentary

    Serbia Must Improve its Children with Disabilities' Bleak Lives

    Published in BalkanInsight
  • December 3, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Straight Talk About Disability

  • October 20, 2015 Commentary

    Ana's story: fighting for disability rights in Croatia

    Published in Open Democracy
  • September 25, 2015 Commentary

    I Know the Fear and Hope of Those Seeking Refuge in Europe

    Published in openDemocracy
  • July 8, 2015 Commentary

    Opinion: Love & Mercy, the Croatian Way

    Published in Inter Press Service (IPS)

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Reports Authored

  • June 8, 2016

    “It is My Dream to Leave This Place”

    Children with Disabilities in Serbian institutions

  • September 21, 2015

    “As Though We Are Not Human Beings”

    Police Brutality against Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Macedonia

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