Human Rights in Serbia 2006
Human Rights in Serbia 2006

Summary/Abstract: The tumultuous political events affected the state of human rights in Serbia in 2006. The disintegration of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro upset the legal system. The National Assembly unanimously approved the draft Constitution at its 30 September session; the draft was upheld by the necessary majority at a two-day referendum on 28-29 November and the Assembly promulgated the Constitution on 8 November. However, the adoption of the new Constitution was possible only after a large number of major political and moral compromises. The substandard work of institutions charged with the protection of human rights still poses a major problem with respect to the protection and realisation of human rights. The public prosecutors rarely spoke up about human rights violations in 2006. The police investigations were long and did not yield satisfactory results. Court proceedings were also impermissibly long. The failure to launch proceedings over human rights and humanitarian law violations committed in the past, during the former regime and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, remained the key obstacle to the respect of democratic values and the establishment of the rule of law.

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