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Families of victims: UNMIK has ignored organ trafficking

BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has said in a release that it fully supports the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee's assessment that the UNMIK mission has failed to conduct efficient investigations in cases related to organ trafficking in KiM in 1999 and 2000.

Children's rights soon to be protected before UN

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said Thursday that the parliament is ready to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which envisages a complaints procedure before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, able to address a broader range of children's rights violations.