Eighth YIHR Youth Summit Held in Novi Pazar
From 22 to 24 June 2026, more than 110 young activists, students, journalists, researchers, artists and civic leaders from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Croatia gathered in Novi Pazar for the eighth Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) Youth Summit.
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Regional Advocacy Forum Held in Belgrade as Part of the RYLMP Program
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), with financial support from the Open Society Foundations – Western Balkans, organized a Regional Advocacy Forum as part of the Regional Youth Leadership and Mobility Programme (RYLMP) on June 30 at the Miljenko Dereta venue. The forum provided young researchers with an opportunity to present the findings of their months-long research projects, as well as the policy recommendations they developed while working in regional teams composed of participants from Albania, Serbia, and North Macedonia.
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Authorities in Serbia denied war crimes from the 1990s at least 110 times in 2025
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights has identified in its new report “State of Denial” at least 110 examples of denial of war crimes from the 1990s by the Serbian authorities in 2025. The report maps at least 60 cases of glorification of 10 convicted war criminals as well as at least 50 cases of various forms of war crime denial, such as denial of crimes in Racak, the siege of Sarajevo, the existence of the camps in Prijedor for non-Serb civilian, and mass graves in Batajnica. As in previous years, in 2025, the Srebrenica genocide remains the single most denied crime, with at least 30 documented cases.
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YIHR Launches “War Past and Facts” Program with Five-Day Workshop
From 1 to 5 June 2026, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, with the support of the Belgrade office of ProPeace, organized the workshop “War Past and Facts,” marking the beginning of a multi-month program of the same name intended for young researchers.
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