Established in 1989 by a group of human rights activists and former political prisoners of Yugoslavia, CDHRF played a key role in documenting cases of human rights abuses in Kosovo during the Milošević regime. The Council had a network of activists who drafted reports and produced photographic documentation of human rights abuses in different areas of Kosovo. The office was located on Bajram Kelmendi Street in a former old town madrasah that has been expanded into an Islamic studies institute today. Today, their offices can be found in the city center at the flower corner of Mother Teresa Square.