Participants of the today conference in Belgrade “How to Stop the Denial of Genocide in Srebrenica?” agreed that countries in the Western Balkans that deny the genocide in Srebrenica cannot become members of the European Union. They called on the EU to make the 30 billion-euro economic aid, which they intend to direct to the Western Balkans, conditional on respect for the values on which the European Union is based.
More‘When you look at the system in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the legislation that is supposed to deal with people damaged by the war, they are very patriarchal, and thus the law recognised women as victims much later compared to men, that is, soldiers, whose status had been regulated much earlier. From the very beginning, everything has been done on a patriarchal basis, in order to put mothers out of the focus first and then to completely leave out the children from such regulation’, said Ajna Jusić of the ‘Forgotten Children of War’ at the online event organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
MoreYouth Initiative for Human Rights Regional Network, working in the post-war countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia, having lived the effects of war and still suffering the consequences of actions such as those of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine, strongly condemns such occurrences and deeply feel for the people in Ukraine and the suffering they are going through at such a difficult time.
MoreThe Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR Serbia) invites you to the presentation of findings of the regional report and handbook on commemorations of war and war crimes in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro for the period of January – October 2021. The presentation is to be held on Monday, January 31, starting from 11:00 via Zoom platform.
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