Reports
“Once You Enter, You Never Leave”
Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia
This 74-page report documents the plight of the more than 9,000 persons with intellectual or mental disabilities living in institutions in Croatia and the lack of community-based programs for housing and support.
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Narrowing the Impunity Gap
Trials before Bosnia’s War Crimes ChamberThis 61-page report evaluates the chamber’s work in conducting trials. Although a relatively new institution, the chamber has made substantial headway in trying cases, including the trial of 11 defendants charged with genocide for their role in the Srebrenica massacre. -
Weighing the Evidence
Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic TrialThis 76-page report examines key evidence introduced at trial, the most comprehensive account to date of the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. -
Croatia: A Decade of Disappointment
Continuing Obstacles to the Reintegration of Serb ReturneesThis 41-page report analyzes the key human rights problems affecting Serbs returning to Croatia, including violence and intimidation, the loss of housing rights and limited access to state employment. -
Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaThis unique 861-page book organizes the decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by topic, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual criminal responsibility, command responsibility, affirmative defenses, jurisdiction, sentencing, fair trial rights, guilty pleas and -
Justice at Risk:
War Crimes Trials in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and MontenegroThis 31-page report examines domestic war crimes trials that have taken place since 2000 for crimes committed during the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. Human Rights Watch has also monitored various of these trials. -
Q & A: Milosevic Trial (ICTY)
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic’s defense is scheduled to begin at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on August 31. -
Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Topical Digests of the Case Law of the ICTR and the ICTYThis 285-page book organizes the tribunals’ decisions by topic, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual criminal responsibility, command responsibility and sentencing. -
Broken Promises
Impediments to Refugee Return to CroatiaEight years after the end of the war in Croatia, ethnic discrimination continues to impede the return of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Serbs displaced by the war. -
The NATO Summit and Arms Trade Controls in Central and Eastern Europe
Leaders of some forty-six countries are anticipated to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 21 and 22, 2002. -
Indictment Against Slobodan Milosevic and Others
Indictees: Slobodan Milosevic, at the time President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Milan Milutinovic, the President of Serbia; Nikola Sainovic, the Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia; Colonel General Dragoljub Ojdanic, the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army; and Vlajko Stojiljkovic, the Minister of In -
Memorandum on Human Rights and Rule of Law Priorities in Yugoslavia
The November 24-25 summit in Zagreb, with the participation of fifteen European Union (E.U.) states and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia, provides a unique opportunity for the E.U. -
Croatia's Democracy Deficit
A Pre-Electoral AssessmentIn the run-up to important parliamentary elections, civil and political rights are seriously restricted in Croatia, Human Rights Watch said in this report. The report describes this political repression as the "human rights legacy" of the late President Franjo Tudjman, who died earlier this month. -
Second Class Citizens
The Serbs of CroatiaOn January 15, 1998, the United Nations transferred authority over Eastern Slavonia, Baranja andWestern Sirmium (hereafter, Eastern Slavonia) to the Croatian government, bringing the lastremaining Serb-held territory of Croatia back under Croatian control Despite positivedevelopments in terms of the repeal of some discrimin -
Croatia: Human Rights in Eastern Slavonia During and After the Transition of Authority
Eastern Slavonia, the only remaining Serb-held region of Croatia, was scheduled to revert to Croatian control by July 15, 1997. Some 120,000 to 150,000 Serbs who lived in that region will come under the authority of their bitter opponent during the war. -
Human Rights In Eastern Slavonia During And After The Transition Of Authority
Eastern Slavonia, the only remaining Serb-held region of Croatia, is scheduled to revert to Croatian control by July 15, 1997. Some 120,000 to 150,000 Serbs living in that region will then come under the authority of their bitter opponent during the war.