One of the volunteers engaged in an NGO in Belgrade, an Albanian from Pristina, talks over the phone with her worried mom׃ "Don't worry, mom, I’m having a great time here." Another frightened teenager who had been refusing to go to Croatia for summer vacation with his parents, believing that he would be slaughtered there by the Ustashas, returned from a trip through Istria with completely different views.
You’re wondering what YIHR was up to last year? Are you interested to see what 365 days of fighting for human rights, justice and reconciliation in Serbia looks like? Do you want to get introduced to our programs and other activities that we implemented in 2023?
Youth Initiative for Human Rights selected as the winner of the Aachen Peace Award 2024 together with the "Grannies Against The Right Wing Parties” (Omas gegen Rechts). This important recognition of our work comes amidst challenging times where maintaining and preserving peace is a global imperative.
The genocide in Srebrenica is a legal and political fact, despite the denial campaign by the authorities in Serbia and Republika Srpska, this is one of the main messages from the panel "The Significance of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Genocide in Srebrenica" organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) on Wednesday, April 24th in the Media Center in Belgrade.
