The program "Echoes Across Borders" will provide participants from Kosovo and Serbia with a unique opportunity to engage with peers from Serbia and Kosovo, fostering a space for the exchange of personal experiences, perspectives, and inherited narratives - both those embraced and those actively challenged within their communities. In doing so, participants will also be introduced to foundational concepts of transitional justice and reconciliation, gaining critical insight into the legal, historical, and social frameworks that shape post-conflict societies in the Western Balkans.
On April 4, 2025, United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) published a report on Serbia with recommendations, including a series from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), sent to the Committee on March 12 this year. Among the recommendations of the CED for the authorities in Serbia are the implementation of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica and the change of legislation in order to sanction the denial of war crimes and the glorfication of war criminals.
Following a complaint filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality has recommended that the Ćuprija Cultural Institution immediately suspend its mural competition dedicated to convicted war criminal Nebojša Pavković.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), in cooperation with Friedenskreis Halle e.V. from Germany, invites young people from Serbia to apply for a 12-month international volunteer program in civil society organizations based in Halle/Saale, running from September 2025 to September 2026.
On Friday, April 4, 2025, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) unveiled an artistic-activist installation titled “Every Step Was a Risk” on Čika Ljubina Street in Belgrade. The installation was created to mark the 33rd anniversary of the start of the Siege of Sarajevo and is dedicated to all the victims of the war in Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996, regardless of their ethnic, national, or religious background.
