Protection of Human Rights in the Army and Police
Protection of Human Rights in the Army and Police

Contributor(s): Miroslav Hadžić (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Security and defense, Military policy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Human Rights; Yugoslav Army; Police; FR Yugoslavia: Public Opinion Survey ; Transition Countries ; Civil Rights ; NATO Aggression ; Military Courts
Summary/Abstract: The book Protection of Human Rights in the Army and the Police combines the papers prepared by the researchers and associates of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, a Belgrade-seated NGO, within a project on the “Protection of Human Rights in the Army and the Police of the FR of Yugoslavia”. The whole project, including the publishing effort, was implemented with the support of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, London and Freedom House, Budapest. The project, initially conceived as one-year (2000-2001) interdisciplinary research exercise, was essentially aimed at identifying the degree of respect for human rights in the Yugoslav army and the police. The research also extended to the observance of human rights of citizens under the jurisdiction of the army and/or the police. The main task of the researchers was to look into the (im)balance between the regulative – constitutional and legal – protection of human rights in the army and the police of the FRY and their actual discharge. In order to do that relevant empirical data had to be collected.To this end, in early 2001, the Centre for Public Opinion and Political Research of the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Belgrade carried out a survey on the situation of human rights and freedoms in the Yugoslav army and the police on a representative sample of 1680, as required for project purposes. The survey findings were presented to the public at a press conference on 12 April 2001 in the Belgrade Media Centre. The conclusive analysis of findings was then incorporated into the present Collection of Papers.

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