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informing about universal and European human rights standards as well as making the public aware of the importance of universal human rights standards
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affirmation of human rights, the rule of law and increasing human rights awareness
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implementation of universal and European human rights standards
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advancement, fulfillment, development and monitoring of political, social and economic rights
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advancement, fulfillment, development and monitoring of minority rights
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fighting against discrimination, intolerance, racism and fostering equality
VCHR’s activities are carried out by the following types of work: educational - seminars, round tables, lectures, workshops; research – theoretical, empirical, data gathering, monitoring; publishing – publications, books, promotion material; and cooperation - with other domestic and international organizations, institutions and associations dealing with human and minority rights.
Through its work to date the Center has dealt intensively with the education of national minorities in Vojvodina and Serbia as well as with possibilities of their protection at international level, within the framework of the United Nations, Council of Europe and OSCE. Numerous seminars were held for the members of national minorities, representatives of domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations, as well as for the representatives of local and republic’s bodies in charge of minority issues. Several hundred participants attended the seminars, and some of them are still involved in the Center’s work.
The Center is one of four non-governmental organizations from Serbia and Montenegro which took part in the monitoring of the Framework Convention for Protection of National Minorities, whose Shadow Report was submitted to the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe in 2003. Since then, active cooperation with the members of the Advisory Committee in Strasbourg has been established.
The Center deals with translation and publishing of publications promoting minority rights.
Since 2004, Vojvodina Center, as one of the six offices in Serbia (Novi Sad, Nis, Valjevo, Negotin, Vranje, Novi Pazar) has been offering free legal counselling to the citizens of Vojvodina and providing free legal proceedings of those cases which it considers to be constituting human rights violations.
