Honorary membership has got six prominenet domestic and six international members. The Institute is represented by the Head of the Institute. At the constituent assembly, Mr. Nikola Filipovic, Ph.D., a judge on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, has been elected as the first Head of the Institute and Mr. Zvonko Lauc, Ph.D., a professor at the Faculty of Law in Osijek as his deputy. The mandate lasts for next two years. The deans of the founders and co-founders of the Institute form the Presidency.
All bodies meet regularly and act in accordance with their authorizations.
The Institute has established its orientation program and has started with its publishing activities. It has already held first conferences on human rights. Currently, it is working intensively on creating its own library, computer data basis and networks among the institutions and individuals that deal with the human rights in the country and abroad. There is a lack of a financial support, but we hope it will gradually come along. We intend to organize joint educational programs already this autumn and we have the first contacts with some other European institutions as we speak.