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Kosovo university receives legal texts from UN tribunal

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Kosovo university receives legal texts from UN tribunal

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Law students in Kosovo are to receive a collection of books and journals from the UN tribunal investigating the region's war crimes. The decision, which will benefit a university in the capital, Prisitina, is designed to boost legal scholarship in the region.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, (ICTY) which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, announced on August 7 that it is donating the journals to the Law Faculty and Human Rights Centre of Pristina University.

The donation consists of an extensive anthology of the American Journal of International Law, ICTY Judicial Reports, the European Journal of International Law, various legal manuals and books on legal theory and practice.

The donation emerged after a meeting between the ICTY Outreach Office and officials from the university.

In a press release, the ICTY said it "is committed to promoting respect for the rule of law," and hoped that "the donated books will greatly benefit the students of law in Kosovo."

The objective of the tribunal, established under a 1993 Security Council resolution, is "to bring to justice the persons who are responsible for…mass killings, massive, organized and systematic detention and rape of women, and the continuance of the practice of ‘ethnic cleansing,’" in the former Yugoslavia.

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