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1) Legal Assistance for the displaced population in Serbia-Montenegro, and cross-border legal solutions and legal capacity building in Croatia:
International Legal Alliances (ILA) in co-operation with the Humanitarian Center for Integration and Tolerance in Novi Sad (HCIT) and Transitions to Democracy (ToD) in Zagreb is implementing the Cross-Border Legal Assistance for the displaced populations Programme in Serbia-Montenegro combined a Legal Capacity Building Programme in Croatia. The Programme’s aim is to solve the refugee crisis in Serbia, by on the one hand giving moral and psychological support to the refugees to start one’s life again and on the other hand by resolving the practical problems related to return/reintegration or integration by solving the many administrative and legal problems that the refugees currently residing in Serbia encounter. Only if these issues are resolved can future conflict be prevented and a sustainable peace achieved. Field teams, including lawyers, psychologists and a field officer (Novi Sad), make regular visits to refugee centres and communities with a dense refugee population. Legal and administrative cases are prepared in the Novi Sad office and taken “cross border” to the Vukovar office in Croatia, from where they are distributed among the attorneys and paralegals participating in the network in Croatia. The office in Vukovar plays a key function in coordinating these cross-border cases in that it maintains the links with the Lawyers whilst the Novi Sad Office maintains the links with the beneficiaries. Linked to these activities are conferences and human rights training with the network of lawyers in Croatia. A legal database of court decision is developed.
For more detailed information please link to periodical reports (drafted in cooperation with the implementing partners):
2) Croatian Danube Basin:
Post-War Human Rights & Confidence Building Programme
Since 1997 until the end of 2002, International Legal Alliances has been assisting domiciles, returnees and displaced persons in the Croatian Danube Basin (CDB) in their reintegration. This included mediating between the Serbs, Croats and other minority populations, to assist in building a sustainable peace. The programme is realized in co-operation with the local implementing partner Sunce. Teams of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and protection-officers worked together on the psychosocial as well as the human rights aspects of the post-war reintegration process. The Programme was conducted from International Legal Alliances’ office in Vukovar from where the mobile teams were going to the field on a daily basis.
The main objective of the Programme was the peaceful reintegration of Croats and Serbs who had been separated as enemies by the wars. Ways to realize this aim were among others: psycho-social assistance, linked to human rights monitoring and legal assistance, advocacy, local capacity building.
Mission report of PostWar Human rights confidence building Croatia
3) former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Post Conflict Confidence Building Programme
The Programme had as its main objective the promotion of inter-communal conciliation between the discordant communities in the conflict affected regions of Macedonia. The Programme was implemented with the local implementing partner ‘The Centre for Inter-Ethnic Tolerance and Refugees’. The Programme was based on mobile teams undertaking community based field work, linked with conciliation and peace building activities. The mediation in the communities and through a large number of group sessions were issue-orientated and hands on and are guided by the basic principles of the Ohrid peace agreement.