Youth Initiative for Human Rights welcomes the placing of the Bill on Ratification of the Agreement on the Establishment of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office, on the agenda for discussion in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
Statement of Anita Mitić, director of Youth Initiative for Human Rights regarding the Beška Attack and Serbia Progressive Party praising a war criminal.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ/ DFJW), with support of the Embassy of France and Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, organized the first Open Space Conference dedicated to the Regional Youth Cooperation Office of the Western Balkans (RYCO) at French Institute in Belgrade on January 23rd, 2017. Twenty young people from Serbia who participated in the Open Space Conference had a chance to discuss, suggest and debate in non-formal atmosphere about the work of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office.
Nine activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and My Initiative Activists’ Movement were physically assaulted on January 17th in Beška Municipality in Vojvodina, (northern province of Serbia) during public debate organized by the Government ruling party – Serbian Progressive Party. These activists were beaten at the debate while protesting against the fact that convicted war criminal Veselin Šljivančanin* was speaker at the debate held in local Cultural Center.
Dear friends, In front of you, there is a new issue of YIHR newsletter where you can find everything we did from May until October, 2016. The most important moment in this period was most definitely the Regional Youth Cooperation Office Agreement which was signed by Prime Ministers of six Western Balkans countries on July 4th in Paris.
