The regional network of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia - regarding the "Non paper" which stirred up the public in the region and beyond, reminds of the saying "Do not kill the messenger".
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights organized an online discussion with Andrej Nikolaidis, a journalist, writer, and columnist from Montenegro. The motive for this discussion was the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica by the Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights in Montenegro, Vladimir Leposavić, but also the wider implications of this incident and the general discourse of democratic changes in Montenegro in relation to the region and the issues of dealing with the past, historical revisionism, and relations among the people of the Balkans, as well.
We demand from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense to determine who enabled the delivery of a large number of copies of the publication "Srebrenica - the official lie of an era" to the temporary Covid hospital in Belgrade's "Stark Arena". We also request that this publication be withdrawn immediately from the mentioned Covid hospital, as well as all other public / state places where it is exhibited.
Autonomous Women’s Center, Women in Black and Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbia) are announcing a call for feminist experts who, together with representatives of organizations, will develop an educational program on the problem of sexual violence in war, as well as for an expert who will adapt the developed program for performance with young people. The closing date for submitting Expressions of Interest is 31st of March 2021 5 p.m.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights organised an online conversation with Jasminko Halilović, founder and director of the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo. Jasminko Halilović talked about how the War Child Museum was founded, as well as the beginnings of the work on the culture of remembrance of the war childhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the work that the Museum originated from.
