The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the framework of the program "A Step Closer to Peace", organized visits of a group of youth from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bradina and a group of youth from Serbia to Tuzla to express their respect for the civilian victims of two war crimes committed on May 25, three years apart. We jointly appeal to the judicial authorities of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to efficiently and fairly conclude the proceedings for war crimes committed in Bradina and at the Tuzla Gate in May 1992 and 1995, respectively, so that the families of the victims can achieve a minimum of judicial justice three decades after the crimes.
Six participants from Serbia, active in the fields of human rights protection and education, took part in the "No More Divided Societies" project in Croatia from May 19 to 24, 2026.
We are strongly concerned that the potential sale of Serbia’s last independent media outlets to Alpac Capital poses a direct and imminent threat to media freedom in Serbia and the Western Balkans.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) held the first session with representatives of 10 organizations and informal groups that have received small grants under the “Rights First” project. The project aims to strengthen participatory democracy and support Serbia on its path towards EU membership by building the capacities of civil society organizations, with a particular focus on young people and marginalized groups. It is implemented by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, the Committee for Human Rights Niš, Link from Sombor, Livrit from Preševo, the Vojvodina Civic Center, and the Center for Academic Progress from Novi Pazar.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights invites young journalists and social science students from Serbia interested in the topic of the wars of the 1990s to apply for the three-month research and educational program “War History and Facts” that will last from the beginning of June to the end of August 2026 in Serbia. The program aims to empower eight young authors who, after an educational workshop, research training and a mentoring process, will write papers in which they will analyze certain aspects of mass human rights violations during the war years of the 1990s based on judicially established facts.
