INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON SECRET POLICE FILES
February 21 - 23, 2002
A number of participants from Serbia and around
the world discussed issues for and against the
opening of secret police files, lustration,
the opening of files in Yugoslavia and in other
countries which have gone through this experience
(Germany, South Africa, the Czech Republic,
Poland, Slovakia). Two legislative models for
the opening of secret police files were presented,
drawn up by the Centre for Anti-war Action and
the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies
IN
SEARCH OF TRUTH AND RESPONSIBILITY
May 18 - 20, 2001
The international conference "In Search
of Truth and Responsibility - Towards a Democratic
Future" was the first such forum to explore
this topic since the dramatic events of September
24 and October 5, 2000. This conference was
important not only because it brought together
large numbers of experts from all over the world,
but also because it marked the beginning of
the very long and painful process of facing
the truth, considering the responsibility, and,
finally, achieving reconciliation throughout
the territory of Southeast Europe
MEDIA
FOR A DEMOCRATIC EUROPE December 11, 2000
The "Media for a Democratic Europe"
conference was aimed at helping to define the
changes needed in the field of the media to
ensure that Yugoslavia would choose democracy
and thus gain equal status in international
institutions. In his opening address, Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica said he did not
believe that media could be truly independent
without financial independence. "I believe
we will soon join together in building a new
democratic society, a pleasant and even somewhat
boring country," said Kostunica
MEDIA
FOR A DEMOCRATIC EUROPE December 4 - 5, 1998
Following the wave of clampdowns on radio and
television stations in Yugoslavia, and in response
to further repression threatened, Radio B92
and ANEM organsied the conference "Media
for a Democratic Europe" with support from
the Council of Europe, the Fund for an Open
Society, USAID, OTI and OSI - Budapest
FREE
2000 August 1998
Due to the ever-increasing pressure on independent
media in Yugoslavia, the Association of Independent
Electronic Media (ANEM) set up the International
Committee for the Protection of Independent
Media in Yugoslavia, FREE 2000. It brought together
17 international and six local non-governmental
organisations concerned with the protection
of human rights and press freedom
