HRC

Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices (ASO) in cooperation with ETZ Graz and Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo has lauched a project "ICT Service in Human Rights Education".

The purpose of this project is to analyse the status quo of existing human rights digital libraries in SEE region, in particular their content and their usage/application in human rights education. Those digital libraries will be compared with other digital libraries in this regard in the other European countries. The project aims to do research to finally come to the conclusion whether such digital libraries are needed to improve and how they can foster human rights education. Furthermore the actual structures of these libraries shall be analysed and compared and good/best practices shall be identified.

The term digital libraries is used as an umbrella term for all kind of electronic collections of human rights education materials including but not limited to: aggregated databases, virtual guides, virtual libraries, directories, virtual classrooms, ebraries, cybraries, hybrid libraries, - all forms of collections of digital content that may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks in the field of human rights education. Accessibility issues will be analysed for the broad public, which might want to get informed on human rights education and a special emphasis will be put on investigating the accessibility with regard to minorities – i.e. language obstacles, etc. This issue will especially be examined by partner 3 – the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Slovenia.

Furthermore it shall be analysed which are the obstacles to the implementation and setting up of digital libraries in the area of human rights education in South Eastern Europe and what possible improvements might be possible in the future. A comparative analysis of the repositories of digital entities identified shall help in this regard to come to conclusions which system might be best for implementing digital libraries in the field of human rights (education). The term “best for implementing” shall be understood that way that a map of the available digital libraries will be established which identifies good practices and highlights them regarding accessibility, usability and structure leading to an e-book in form of a manual for general use.

This project shall provide the basic research of the status quo, a basic pilot study, for then hopefully building up a larger project to further improve the digitalisation of content and material and the content of digital libraries in the field of human rights and establish digital libraries for human rights education in the 7th Framework Programme. Beside this, research on physical libraries should be carried out in order to create a map of available human rights (education) libraries in SEE that can serve for human rights education within local communities, and to investigate possible conversion of physical materials into digital ones following recommendations of the High Level Expert Group – Copyright Subgroup of European Digital Library Initiative.

Regional Ethics Teaching Meeting - Split , 28-29 November 2005

The aim of the meeting is to discuss with a small and selected number of experts in ethics teaching from South Eastern Europe (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia-Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria) what is the state of the art in ethics teaching programmes (not only in bioethics, but also in science and technology departments). In the meeting we will ask every participant to describe his or her teaching programme(s), then we can make a comparative analysis, and finally we can discuss what UNESCO can contribute in order to advance ethics teaching, for example by creating a School of Ethics, bringing together experts from various countries who can create an international programme in this area. Representative of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo presented at this meeting programme of “Science, technology and human rights” course that is part of Human Rights School for Future Decision Makers programme in Dubrovnik every year (in organisation of the Balkan Human Rights Network).

Balkan as seen from the outside: First international meeting of Slavic librarians in Sarajevo

“In what way and how much are Southeast Europe, especially B-H, librarianship, publishing and collections present at universities throughout the world and what are necessities of their users?” these are some of the questions discussed at the “Balkan as Seen Outside” conference. This first international meeting of Slavic librarians was held in Sarajevo from 22 to 24 April.

Primary goal of the conference was to introduce representatives of foreign libraries with current B-H publishing production for better placing of titles from B-H, as well as enabling direct contact of foreign and domestic librarians for future cooperation and inter-library exchange. Two main themes of the meeting were “Challenges in Choosing Collections and Their Presentation to Public” and “Globalisation Processes and Changes of User Communities”.

Human Rights Centre was co-organiser of the Conference and author of one of the introductory report.

The Centre was also engaged at the Second meeting of Slavic librarians in Sarajevo from 20-23 April 2006. Theme was “Slavic Collections – Future and Challenges”.

Management of Access to Electronic Resources – academic databases

Report on usage of EBSCOhost system for the period January 2005 - September 2006

Month	Searches	Total Full Text	Smart Link	Custom Link	Summaries
September 2006	1848	778	17	2	872
August 2006	1276	416	29	0	432
July 2006	2542	661	1	4	660
June 2006	5768	847	11	3	1883
May 2006	3709	2616	13	11	6041
April 2006	3389	2236	69	8	5404
March 2006	2458	834	39	8	1265
February 2006	1639	2252	5	0	410
January 2006	5000	2092	11	11	1774
December 2005	2867	1476	12	38	748
November 2005	2714	1302	21	0	620
October 2005	2963	727	29	0	534
September 2005	1779	499	14	0	315
August 2005	1689	436	2	0	421
July 2005	2416	693	4	0	618
June 2005	3881	1437	7	0	724
May 2005	1963	871	20	0	512
April 2005	3047	1005	16	0	643
March 2005	2061	1923	9	0	442
February 2005	1960	7929	22	0	494
January 2005	3644	874	11	0	730
TOTAL	58613	31904	362	85	25542

SEELAWYERS.NET

Portal was made for the need of Retraining Lawyers in Transition Countries of Southeast Europe project and it has reconstructed all programme activities within the period from 2002-2006. Portal is available in three languages: Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and English. The Portal was made, designed and shaped in the Department.

Balkan Human Rights Network Yearbook

Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo team has participated in creating and editing of the Balkan Human Rights Network Yearbook for the year 2006. Yearbook issue for 2006 was prepared with the aim to be significant periodic publication in the field of human rights. The Yearbook contains articles of domestic and foreign authors and not just in human rights issues but as well in related disciplines. The Yearbook has an ambition to report in time and to monitor development of international and regional human rights systems and their implications to the Balkans.

Human Rights of Persons with Disability

„Human Rights of Persons with Disability“is regional project realised in cooperation with Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. Balkan Human Rights Network has insured financial support within the FRESTA initiative.

The aim of the project was to ensure elaboration, printing and distribution of publication that will analyse the condition of human rights of persons with disability in Croatia , Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina . Expert teams from each of these countries conducted analysis of legal frame for the protection of human rights of this threatened population and elaborated individual reports on the condition of this population in each country participating in this project. Special attention was devoted to elaboration of clear and recognisable suggestions of legal and social nature whose adoption and implementation could contribute to development of current condition of human rights of persons with disability. Publication was promoted in public in the region and distributed to all governmental and non-governmental organisations dealing with human rights of persons with disability. Publication is available at: http://www.ljudskaprava.ba/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=27&Itemid=10

ETZ Graz

Understanding of human rights: human rights education manual – workshop for trainers in human rights

Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo has, with financial support of European Centre for Training and Research in Human Rights and Democracy from Graz , organised workshop with the aim to present new manual on human rights education titled “Understanding Human Rights”. The workshop held in the period from 26 to 28 April 2006 gathered thirty B-H trainers from governmental, non-governmental and academic sector.

Balkan Human Rights Network

“ Human Rights School for Future Decision Makers” summer school – Dubrovnik (Balkan Human Rights Network and IUC)

In the period from 22 May to 05 June 2005 and 04–18 June 2006 the Balkan Human Rights Network has organised summer school of human rights. Selected participants from Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Kosovo , Macedonia , Montenegro and Serbia had the opportunity to listen to lectures from 25 eminent lecturers in human rights subjects. As before, the Centre has participated in organisation of the School this year by selection of candidates from Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as delegating lecturers for certain subjects.

Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen

Reporting on Human Rights

The representative of the Department was engaged by call from Danish Institute for Human Rights at elaboration of curricula for the Human Rights Reporting course (Co-Developer)

Objectives of the Course:

• to enhance knowledge and skills among the partners organizations in monitoring, analysing and reporting human rights issues

• to provide the partner organizations with tools to identify and describe domestic human rights problems and subsequently on the basis of their findings to develop strategies for dealing with these issues.

• to promote national and regional net-works between NGOs working within human rights.

Content of the Course:

Without proper human rights monitoring, reporting and documentation it will be difficult to ensure the respect for, the protection of, and the fulfilment of human rights. In order to promote the quality of monitoring, reporting and documentation this course will seek to build capacity in this field by focussing on relevant practical skills and knowledge. The course will be using the UN Committee on The Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination as a general framework for dealing with practical issues regarding monitoring, reporting and documentation. The course will be structured according to the reporting cycle going from the initial steps of collecting data through the different stages of a reporting process to the question of how to use the information of the reports, when the reporting is to be followed-up by a national process.

Human Rights Course

Copenhagen , November 5-18, 2005

Module: Human Rights Reporting and Documentation

Lectures Series: Documentation and Information (November 8, 2005)

Lecturer: Mr Saša Madacki, University of Sarajevo Human Rights Centre

Lectures Series Rationale

This series is designed to give the attendees of the course an overview of the human rights documentation field, and to assist the attendees in identifying a specific area of interest within the field. Attendees will also discuss how today's documentation and other information centres remain a focal point for providing organization and access to the vast stores of information now available to us, whether in print, media, or computerized and electronic formats.

Lectures Series Description:

Aim of the lecture is to introduce attendees with intermediate college-level research and documentation skills necessary for effective use of traditional and new information resources. Emphasis is placed on documentation and research strategies and evaluation of information resources. The course covers different levels, types, and formats of information, including the Internet.

Centre for Interdisciplinary Post-graduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo

The Department was engaged in lecturing on Methodology of Scientific-Research Work at following studies: European Studies, State Management and Humanitarian Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy.

Total of 30 classes of teaching at all three studies was realised.

Purpose of this course at all three studies is introduction of students with basic principles, functions and practical solutions for appliance of different methodologies of scientific research in the field of social, historical sciences and humanities. Basic knowledge is provided in following fields: information sciences, bibliography, qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as academic writing.

After this course students are supposed to be capable to:

evaluate different information resources necessary for realisation of independent scientific research
use and evaluate efficiently information resources, as well as to apply suitable methodologies for elaboration of scientific papers or research reports
use suitable scientific research methods

Regional Human Rights Report 2005

Regional Human Rights Report 2005 is Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN) regional project coordinated by Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. Expert from Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo has participated in elaboration of the Regional report. The Regional report contains national report on human rights condition in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005. Regional Human Rights Report for 2005 is published in September 2006.

Gradual Enrichment of Access to Information Resources - EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost is electronic-information service that enables search of 10 databases of which Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier are the most interesting ones. This service contains, in electronic form, over 6000 journals with full text, as well as publications offering abstracts, journal reviews and encyclopaedic data from social, humanities and biomedicine science. It enables printing, e-mailing and downloading of number of articles.

In order to fulfil service to Library and Documentation Department clients we started with connecting local contents of our library with EBSCOhost. Therefore, now it's possible to order articles that library has in physical form and the same ones are indexed or abstracted in database. We also created a form for inter-library loan as well as linking to Google Scholar. We activated Visual Search so that clients can see results page in graphic form (3D).

Process of Constitutional Changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

For the needs of this project a questionnaire containing 15 questions analysed as 22 variables was elaborated. Total of 49 examinees were inquired. Results are available at http://www.hrc.unsa.ba/projekti/Proces_ustavnih_promjena_u_BiH.pdf pages 65-86. Details at www.hrc.unsa.ba

Protection of Asylum Seekers in Republic of Croatia and Region

The Department took part in this project through preparation of subject bibliography on asylum and issues of migration/immigration in foreign press in the period from 1866 to 2006 and the result of it were 1594 selected and elaborated texts in periodic publications.

This bibliography contains descriptions of 1594 articles from 352 journals. 920 texts out of total number (1594) are accessible for partners while the rest of 668 articles are available only as an abstract. We are still trying to determine accessibility for 6 articles through our partners.

Beside mentioned the Department is constantly monitoring titles in electronic media (web) and distributes HPC/HRC Daily Asylum Monitor to partners. Up to now, there have been published 112 issues of this publication containing over 600 news from all around the world.

The Gate - Virtual Gate to Human Rights

The purpose of “Gate – Virtual Gate to Human Rights” project is to create unique, comprehensive and reliable electronic archive of documents and information on human rights that will be at service to all researchers of the condition of human rights in B-H.

The main purpose of this project is to provide unique web portal for B-H citizens dedicated only to information and documents related to human rights.

Usage and development of information technologies helps movement for protection of human rights because they provide faster, cheaper and more transparent exchange of information. “Gate – Virtual Gate to Human Rights) enables researchers and analysts of human rights condition, journalists and wider audience, objective, fast and modern gate to thousands of relevant information and documents on human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Project results: There are more than 15000 information available in database in various forms – from summaries of articles in expert magazines, address book of institutions dealing with human rights to resolutions of international bodies and reports of NGO sector. Available at: www.ljudskaprava.ba

The Gate - Virtual Gate to Human Rights

The main purpose of this project is to provide unique web portal for B-H citizens dedicated only to information and documents related to human rights.