On the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the March 2004 violence in Kosovo, Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Serbia and Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Kosovo, are calling their governments to show sincere respect for all victims of ethnically motivated violence in order to start building societies where everyone has the right to live free and to feel safe.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights welcomes the vote of Serbian representative to adopt a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The organisations gathered around the Three Freedoms Platform fiercely condemn the aggression of the Russian Federation on Ukraine and warn that a blatant violation of international law norms is at hand. We call upon the international stakeholders and humanitarian organisations to do all in their powers to prevent further suffering of the civilian population, and upon the relevant institutions of the Republic of Serbia to contribute to that end, as well as to prepare for providing assistance to the people fleeing their homes. Also, we call upon the institutions of the Republic of Serbia to join other European countries and condemn the aggression of the Russian Federation on Ukraine. This is one of the important moments of the European solidarity and Serbia, if it wishes to be part of the European Union, must demonstrate that its shares the EU values.
Participants of the today conference in Belgrade "How to Stop the Denial of Genocide in Srebrenica?" agreed that countries in the Western Balkans that deny the genocide in Srebrenica cannot become members of the European Union. They called on the EU to make the 30 billion-euro economic aid, which they intend to direct to the Western Balkans, conditional on respect for the values on which the European Union is based.
‘When you look at the system in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the legislation that is supposed to deal with people damaged by the war, they are very patriarchal, and thus the law recognised women as victims much later compared to men, that is, soldiers, whose status had been regulated much earlier. From the very beginning, everything has been done on a patriarchal basis, in order to put mothers out of the focus first and then to completely leave out the children from such regulation’, said Ajna Jusić of the ‘Forgotten Children of War’ at the online event organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
