Eighteen young people from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo visited Pristina for the first time as part of the Study Visit to Pristina, which was part of Mirëdita, dobar dan! festival from May 4 to 6. During the three-day exchange, students had the opportunity to meet human rights and peace activists, as well as representatives of Kosovo institutions, and discuss minority rights in Kosovo, linguistic segregation, war crimes in Kosovo, as well as about the importance of memorialization.
The tenth edition of the “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” festival ended last night in Pristina, with the presentation of the award to Bekim Blakaj, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, and the theater performance “Would be a shame if the plants died”.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia (YIHR Serbia) demands the immediate dismissal of the Minister of Education, Branko Ruzic, due to the political instrumentalization of the tragedy at Elementary School “Vladislav Ribnikar”. We also call for accountability of Veselin Milic, the chief of the Belgrade police, for publicizing the list of names of the minor victims and mentioning the juvenile offender’s name. The legality of disclosing this information must be reviewed by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data, the Ombudsman of Serbia, the Internal Control Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prosecutor office.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights is a partner organization together with Memo98, Political Capital, ResPublika in the implementation of the Western Balkan project as part of the Forum 2000 conference.
The tenth jubilee edition of the "Mirëdita, dobar dan!" festival, a unique cultural event that has been organized in Belgrade and Prishtina since 2014, will be held from May 4th to 6th in Prishtina, with the presentation of the modern artistic, cultural, and social scene of Serbia and with raising critical issues concerning both the past and the future in times that represent a great challenge for Kosovo and Serbian society. Citizens of Prishtina will have the opportunity to get to know the Serbian cultural scene, musicians, film, and literary authors.
