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I Information on the organisations included in the production of the report
The Center for Peace, Legal Advice and Psychosocial Assistance, Vukovar is non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, humanitarian organisation established on the August 01, 1996. Vision of the Center is a modern democratic society, society of the rule of law and respect for human rights and values, society of tolerance and equal opportunities for all regardless of their ethnicity or religion, language, culture or social status. Activities of the Center: - promoting and protecting human rights and freedoms; - providing free counselling and relevant information; - supporting civic initiatives and economic development; - preparing and running public campaigns; - organising different kinds of education; - activities aimed towards interethnic and inter-religious tolerance; - co-operating with relevant governmental and non-governmental organisations in the Republic of Croatia, foreign non-governmental and other international organisations. The Center operates in wider Vukovar and former UNTAES area and deals with particular activities on national and international levels. Center’s programs are divided in the following fields: 1. Protection and promotion of human rights 2. Economic Development 3. Education / Informing 4. Democratisation 5. Peace activities 6. Co-operation
Beneficiaries of the Center’s services are all citizens regardless of sex, culture, language, mental or physical abilities, ethnicity or religion. The Center is a member of the Coalition for Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Croatia.
Contact Person: Mr. Ljubomir Mikić, president Address: Fra Antuna Tomaševića 32, 32 000 Vukovar, Republic of Croatia Tel/fax:+385 (0)32 413 319; +385 (0)32 413 317 E-mail: centar-za-mir@vk.htnet.hr
Community of Serbs Rijeka (CSR) is non-governmental and non-political organisation that assembles citizens belonging to the Serb community in the areas of Rijeka and Primorsko-goranska County in order to preserve their cultural, religious and national identity and to protect human and minority rights in conformity with positive legislation of the Republic of Croatia and international standards, conventions and mechanisms, that Croatia adopted. CSR was established at the end of 1991 working, at the time, within wider regional organisation, Community of Serbs of Rijeka, Istria and Gorski Kotar. Since 1994, the CSR worked independently under its own name. Community of Serbs Rijeka is one of the founders but also a member of the Serbian National Council, an umbrella institution of Serbian people in the Republic of Croatia. Through its most important activity, Human and Minority Rights Protection Program (legal assistance, public stands, conferences, co-operation with international institutions), the Community of Serbs Rijeka built a broad co-operation initiating number of activities related to the field of interethnic communication with many NGOs in Croatia, B&H and Serbia and Montenegro but also other minority communities in Rijeka and the whole country. As a local partner to the MRGI, the CSR also organised three international conferences on position of national minorities in Middle and Southeast Europe in period 2000 – 2002. The Community of Serbs, Rijeka, developed excellent co-operation with local, executive and legislative authorities in Rijeka and also has one representative within the Rijeka City Council for National Minorities. Contact person: Mrs. Darinka Janjanin, Community of Serbs Rijeka Human and Minority Rights Protection Program Co-ordinator and the President of the Council of Serbian National Minority in Rijeka Address: Trg Sv. Barbare 1, 51000 Rijeka, Republic of Croatia Tel.: +385 (0)51 330 867 Fax: +385 (0)51 330 873 E-mail: vsnm-ri@net.hr, darinka.janjanin@ri.htnet.hr Web page: www.vsnm-ri.org
The following organisations or their representatives provided suggestions and were included in the production of the report, data collecting and processing:
- Association '' ZvoniMir '', Knin - Association '' ALTRUIST '', Split and Knin Offices - Association '' Civil Rights Project '', Sisak - Association for Protection of Human Rights and Civic Freedoms '' HOMO '' Pula, Korenica Office - Association '' Hoću Kući (I want to go home)'', Knin - Serbian Democratic Forum Knin Office - Dalmatian Solidarity Committee, Knin Office - Centre for Peace Studies, Zagreb - Association ''Delfin'', Pakrac - MPDL, Knin |