Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights - YUCOM

Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (Komitet pravnika za ljudska prava) – YUCOM, was founded in November 1997 (then called Yugoslav Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) as an expert, voluntary, non-governmental organization whose members are legal experts engaged in promoting the idea of the rule of law and upholding human rights, raising public awareness, rendering legal assistance to victims of human rights violations, as well as developing co-operation with national and international organizations involved in human rights protection and promotion. YUCOM's main activity is the promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with the highest international legal and professional standards. YUCOM sees the promotion and protection of human rights within the general framework of democracy, the rule of law and open civil society through legal institutions and procedures, fair due process, judicial independence and justice.