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27/02/2023

Expert opinion: The proposed “anti-mafia” law is not in line with the European human rights standards

The Human Rights Action (HRA) once again appealed to the Parliament of Montenegro and the Montenegrin Government to abandon the adoption of the Draft Law on […]
27/02/2023

THREE DECADES OF WAITING FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF THE CRIME COMMITTED IN ŠTRPCI

Today marks three decades since the war crime in which twenty passengers were taken off a train at the station in Štrpci and murdered. The Human […]
21/02/2023
The Human Rights Action (HRA) is protesting the decision of the basic state prosecutor in Podgorica, Maja Knežević, to dismiss for the third time the criminal […]
09/02/2023

THE PROSECUTORIAL COUNCIL CIRCUMVENTED THE BAN ON THE ELECTION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS TO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

The Human Rights Action believes that the Prosecutorial Council should not have considered higher state prosecutor Tatjana Begović (from the list of prosecutors with at least […]
30/01/2023

Proactive Prosecution of War Crimes is an Obligation of the State and a Moral Debt to the Victims

Although this was envisaged in the 2015 War Crimes Investigation Strategy, Montenegro is still not prosecuting war crimes on its own initiative (proactively), said the Executive […]
30/12/2022

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND 2023!

22/12/2022

PROTEST CAUSED BY THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE STATE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

The Human Rights Action (HRA) is expressing its protest against the decision of the Prosecutorial Council to propose to the Parliament of Montenegro – at the […]
20/12/2022

DISCUSSION WITH STUDENTS ON THE PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

“Although they are opponents in a war, enemies are still people. The fact that someone has a legitimate right to defend himself does not mean that […]
19/12/2022

We are requesting a public debate on the Law on the Confiscation of Assets

The Human Rights Action (HRA) supports the appeal of the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) that the Parliament return to public debate […]
09/12/2022

International Human Rights Day in Montenegro

The fact that, on the International Human Rights Day, all human rights in Montenegro are threatened by the institutional collapse of the Constitutional Court is quite […]
07/12/2022

Message from the conference “Dialogue to Face the Past”: All for Peace, All Against War

“The destructive and unreasonable war against Croatia and Dubrovnik had caused great and unprecedented trauma to Montenegrin and Croatian citizens, and a way to overcome that […]
07/12/2022

31 YEARS SINCE THE AGGRESSION OF THE JNA ON THE AREA OF DUBROVNIK AND THE SHELLING OF THE OLD TOWN

Human Rights Action (HRA), Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past remind that 31 years ago, on 6 December […]