| Milan Antonijević | |
| Birth Name: | Милан Антонијевић |
| Birth Date: | 1975 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Workplaces: | Open Society Foundations Serbia National Convent on the European Union |
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| Main Interests: | European integration of Serbia Human Rights Minority rights Social rights International humanitarian law |
Milan Antonijevic (Serbian: Милан Антонијевић; Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia; 24 September 1975) is a Serbian lawyer, human rights activist, and, executive director of the Open Society Foundation Serbia.
Milan Antonijević was born on 24 September 1975 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Third Belgrade Gymnasium and the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Department of International Law.[1] From 1997 to 2000 he worked as a lawyer and in 1999 he graduated from the Human Rights School of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, where he works as a lecturer.
Since 2001, Antonijević has worked as an associate on The Lawyers’ Committee For Human Rights (YUCOM); since 2005 he has been executive director and in 2010 he became director of the committee. During his time at YUCOM, as a member of a team of lawyers and jurists, he represented people whose human rights were endangered before the Serbian and international courts.
Antonijević was a 2006 trainer in Amman, training representatives of Iraqi civil society on constitutional reform advocacy. In the same year, he followed the referendum on the independence of Montenegro as an observer of the Montenegrin Helsinki Committee. He worked on a number of laws in the field of education and social protection, which were adopted in 2009 and 2010, as well as in drafting amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, whose provisions were adopted in 2012. Antonijević received a Chevening Scholarship from the UK Government in 2009 and completed a major in Conflict Prevention and Using Democracy for Peace at the University of Bradford.[2]