DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
From Autonomy to Colonization: Human Rights in Kosovo 1989-1993 , November 1993, Vienna. Report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), 83 p. The report i.a. contains chapters on the historical and political background of the present situation; the purge of Kosovo's trade, industry and administration; the collapse of the medical care system; the destruction of the ethnic Albanian education system, sciences and arts; the Albanian-language media and publishing in Kosovo; the freedom o association; police and justice; the militarisation of Kosovo; other means of segregation and discrimination. In its conclusions and recommendations the IHF urges the UN General Assembly to address the government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's expulsion of the CSCE mission of lon-duration and its prevention of an international human rights monitoring presence in Kosovo.
Available at: International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Rummelhardtgasse 2/18, A-1090 Vienna. Tel: +43/1 4027387, Fax: +43/1 4087444.The exchange of population: The Vojvodina Croats for the Serbs from Croatia , Spotlight Report No.8, 1.12.1993, 20 p., by the HUMANITARIAN LAW FUND, Belgrade.
The report describes the policy of population exchange by the example the village of Hrtkovci and other municipalities in Vojvodina. In its based on interviews with local inhabitants and information published by the newspapers Politika, Borba, NIN, and Vreme.
Available at: Humanitarian law Fund, Terazije 6/III, 11000 Belgrade, FRY; Tel: +38/11 658430, Fax: +38/11 646341.Police Co-operation in Europe: An Investigation , Centre for the Study of Public Order (CSPO), University of Leicester, November 1993, 351 p.
Probably the most comprehensive study of the subject available at present. An essential reference book for everyone interested in the process of harmonisation in the field of policing. The book consists of seven main parts on: Europe without frontiers: the policing issue; Macro level structures for police-co-operation; Crime, border controls and immigration; police forces in the European Union; Communications and information exchange; Police co-operation in Europe: towards the future; and Meso-level groups, agreements and networks.
The final chapter includes detailed analysis of the lack of accountability of the new structures of policing, and the concern about their impact on human rights and on the legitimacy of the police and consequentpublic confidence and trust.
The book is available from: Sheridan Morris, CSPO, University of leicester, 6 Salisbury Rd, leicester 7QR, UK; Fax: +44/533 523944. Price £47.50 including p&p in Europe."Sin Fronteras" , monthly magasine (in Spanish) published by COMRADE (Committee for the Defence of Refugees, Asylum-seekers and Immigrants in Spain).
Available at: SIN FRONTERAS, Apartado postal 8564, E-28080 Madrid.Immigration and Citizenship in the European Union , by Ann Dummett and Jan Niessen, publ. by the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, CCME Briefing Paper No.14, 27 p.
This paper deals with the Maastricht Treaty's implications for immigration, citizenship and community relations. Readers will find extracts from relevant texts, with some explanation and commentary. In their concluding remarks the authors note, i.a.: "The machinery now in place to deal with immigration is almost unbelievably complicated. The Maastricht Treaty, together with other recent international agreements, has created a situation in which there will be numerous different classes of persons, governed by rules cutting across categories.... The treaty on European Union is supposed to mark a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, where decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizens. Yet.... migration policy and asylum policy are effectively left in the hands of executive authorities on whom there is no control at European level...[The] Maastricht summit produced no proposals for Community-wide anti-discrimination legislation. But measures to ensure quality of treatment for all residents are urgently needed. Without them, and whatever new policies on entry are developed, we face the prospect of a permanent underclass in the European Union."
Available at: Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), 174 rue Joseph II, B-1040 Brussels; Tel: +32/2 2302011, Fax: +32/2 2311413. Price £ 5/DM 12/ECU 6.