The First Children Embassy in the World Međaši demanded from the competent authorities the strictest possible sanctions for the man from Veles suspected of raping his three daughters and to not allow for children to be returned to the family, in view of the risk of them changing their statements under pressure of the relatives and lack of proper understanding of their situation.

The Youth Initiatives for Human Rights (YIHR), regional association with offices in Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, and Prishtina, presented last Thursday, July 29, in Sarajevo, its Srebrenica-Mapping Genocide Project, under the auspices of Sarajevo Film Festival’s Human Rights Day.

After the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia reduced the Branimir Glavaš’s sentence for crimes over Serb civilians before and during the War in Croatia from 10 to 8 years in prison, nongovernmental and civic associations came forward, expressing their dissatisfaction with Supreme Court’s ruling.

Nermin CengicNermin Čengić, columnist for Sarajevo-based Protest.ba portal, comments about the situation in transition societies that led to the latest incident, in which prominent Serbian journalist and commentator for Vreme weekly was attacked and beaten up last Saturday, in front of the full public bus in which nobody tried to help. Following is the full text of Čengić's comment originally published on Protest.ba.

Teofil PancicTeofil Pančić, journalist, columnist and literary critic of the weekly magazine "Vreme" was attacked and severely beaten by two assailants, in a public bus in Belgrade. The assailants used metal bars and Pančić suffered head contusions and bruises on his left arm, and was treated for his injuries at “Zemun” Clinical Hospital.

UNDP BiH invites all interested civil society organizations with active experience in the field of prevention and eradication of gender-based violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for the training programme that aims to strengt–en the capacity of civil society to monitor the efficiency of judicial processing of such violations in BiH. The training will be conducted by UNDP expert. The two-day training will be held in the first half of September 2010.

The Initiative for RECOM, coalition of a great number of civil society organisations from all countries of former Yugoslavia pushing for creation of a Regional Commission for establishing and public disclosure of facts about war crimes and other serious human rights violations in the wars in former Yugoslavia (RECOM) held, on Saturday, July 3, its first consultations with the civil society in Macedonia.