Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo: minority communities: fundamental rights denied
This report is a summary of a 70-page document, Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova):Prisoners in our own home: Amnesty International’s Concerns for Minorities in Kosovo/Kosova, AI Index: EUR 70/010/2003, in which Amnesty International details the findings of its research into the denial of the rights of minority communities in Kosovo. It examines how the abuse of … Continue reading Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo: minority communities: fundamental rights denied →
Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): prisoners in our own homes: Amnesty International’s concerns for the human rights of minorities in Kosovo/Kosova
In this report Amnesty International details the findings of its research into the denial of the rights of minority communities in Kosovo. It examines how the abuse of civil and political rights affects the ability of minorities to access their social and economic rights. It includes recommendations to the international community and to the authorities … Continue reading Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): prisoners in our own homes: Amnesty International’s concerns for the human rights of minorities in Kosovo/Kosova →
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): killings in the Izbica area
Amnesty International delegates, in cooperation with members of the Albanian Human Rights Group, have interviewed dozens of refugees from the Drenica region of Kosovo province. The testimony of these witnesses, who had fled or been forcibly expelled from villages near Izbica and Kladernica (Kllodernicë in Albanian), in Srbica (Skënderaj) municipality, or had been hiding from … Continue reading Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): killings in the Izbica area →
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): Amnesty International’s recommendations for the protection of human rights in post-conflict peace building and reconstruction in Kosovo
Consensus on a set of principles for a peace agreement concerning Kosovo was reached on 3 June 1999 between the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and a joint delegation of the European Union and the Russian Federation. These principles, subsequently approved by the Serbian Parliament, fail to address the protection of human … Continue reading Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): Amnesty International’s recommendations for the protection of human rights in post-conflict peace building and reconstruction in Kosovo →
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): the forgotten resistance: the plight of conscientious objectors to military service after the conflict in Kosovo
This document discusses the plight of those who, often at the instigation of the international community, conscientously objected during the conflict in Kosovo. It calls on the international community to protect conscientous objectors who have fled the region.
FRY (Kosovo) update from the field: January 2000
This document describes some of Amnesty International’s recent findings from field researchers working in Kosovo (Kosova) in the period from December 1999 to mid-January 2000. It presents background on the situation as well as Amnesty International’s concerns and related recommendations.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): Amnesty International’s recommendations on the return of refugees to Kosovo
This report discusses Kosovar refugees’ protection need both within and without Kosovo, in the context of avoiding forcible return.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a human rights crisis in Kosovo province: human rights violations against women in Kosovo province
This report aims to illustrate the human rights situation of women, primarily ethnic Albanian women, in Kosovo province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by highlighting a number of representative cases.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a human rights crisis in Kosovo province: the protection of Kosovo’s displaced and refugees
Since March this year (1998) the world has looked on as gross human rights abuses perpetrated in Kosovo province of Serbia have forcibly displaced ever multiplying numbers of people, predominantly ethnic Albanians, who form the majority in Kosovo. Civilians have been the principal victims of the violence and have frequently been deliberately targeted.