July 11, 2020 1:30 pm
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“Official nationalist narrative in Serbia has been going on for 25 years, it is only getting stronger, closed in itself, and this entire truth, regardless of being established before international courts and that the whole world sees it in one way. Serbia is the victim of nationalist narrative which puts it on the opposite side of international law and developed world”, said Ivan Đurić, Programme Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights to N1 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
June 24, 2020 4:49 pm
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Mr. Parliamentary Speaker, do not relativize criminal character of the Ustasha greeting ‘For Home(land) – Ready!’
June 22, 2020 1:14 pm
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On the occasion of EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčak’s visit and meeting with Kosovan representatives in Washington D.C. on Saturday, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights calls on President Vučić and other government representatives in Belgrade to approach this phase of negotiations in a manner different to those that have preceded.
June 19, 2020 1:19 pm
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Pre-election silence is determined by law so that citizens may cast their votes in peace. However, we cannot stand in... View Article
June 13, 2020 1:45 pm
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We are pleased to announce the official publication of the first joint civil society human rights report in Kosovo. The... View Article
June 10, 2020 1:22 pm
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After the web portal War in Serbia was launched, nationalists, lead by Milošević successor, Ivica Dačić, joined by the longest propaganda machine of the Greater Serbia, daily Večernje Novosti, have aggressively attacked the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
May 2, 2020 1:30 pm
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of civilians’ suffering on the territory of Western Slavonia and in Zagreb, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Croatia and Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia are commemorating civilian victims of war killed during that time aiming to contribute to the process of reconciliation in our society and to the change of a dominant narrative currently centred around military feats, while victims are completely neglected.
March 28, 2020 1:36 pm
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More than twenty years after the crime in Podujevo, instead of opening a space where the testimonies of the crime and voices of victims’ families will be heard, the government’s approach to the crimes committed by the Serbian police and military forces in Kosovo is still reflected in permanent glorification of war criminals such as Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Nikola Šainović.
February 29, 2020 1:46 pm
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The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, in co-operation with forumZFD, organized a study visit for twenty young activists from Serbia to the Srebrenica Memorial (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Šljivovica Detention Camp in the Čajetina municipality (Serbia) on February 25-28 2020.
February 26, 2020 1:54 pm
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On Thursday, February 27, 2020, it will be 27 years since the crime in Štrpci (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in which members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska (VRS) kidnapped and killed 20 non-Serb civilians, passengers on a train travelling from Belgrade to Bar. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Women in Black, Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms and Youth Initiative for Human Rights recall the public’s attention to the fact that victims’ families have been waiting for judicial justice in Serbia, and the recognition of their status as family members of civilian victims of war, for 27 years now. For 27 years the public has been waiting for the recognition, accountability and memorialisation of victims by the institutions of Serbia.
