Women in Black and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights commemorated the 27th anniversary of the abduction and murder of 16 Bosniak citizens of Serbia from Sjeverin by the peace action ’Remember the Crime in Sjeverin’.
Today, The Council of Europe Office and the French Embassy to Serbia have hosted a reception in honour of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, the laureate of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.
Minister Zoran Đorđević said today that "No one has ever been deported from Serbia by Serbs, let alone imprisoned and killed for being different, and this is not even in our political tradition," during the commemoration of the victims of Jajinci during World War II.
Václav Havel Prize ceremony: Ivan Đurić's speech
The Regional Network of Youth Initiative for Human Rights has the great honor to announce that we have received the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize for our work on peacebuilding and reconciliation in the Balkans. The prize was presented at a special ceremony today, 30th September at the Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg, on the opening day of the autumn plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
