Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR Serbia) and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR Kosovo) condemn the BIA’s practice of intimidation against Kosovo journalist Adriatik Kelmendi, as well as the hate messages sent to sent in December of this year Intimidation of Albanians is the opposite of regional co-operation initiatives such as the Open Balkan and could cause another boycott from the Albanian community in Serbia of the 2022 census. In accordance with that, we demand that the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, and Miroslav Lajčak, EU representative, clearly condemn these attacks, and from the Prosecutor’s Office and that the police urgently and efficiently investigate these cases and end the practice of impunity.
MoreWitnessing that Kosovo-Serbia relations are not improving despite the ongoing dialogue process, we express our deep concern for the deterioration of the situation on the ground and in the daily lives of citizens. There is a need to safeguard and protect the human rights of minority groups in Serbia and Kosovo.
MoreThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Government of Serbia to answer questions regarding endangering the security of activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights after the unsuccessful removal of the mural of Ratko Mladic on November 9 in Njegoševa street in Belgrade and the ban of public assembly by the Ministry of Interior.
MoreParticipants of the conference “How to Stop the Denial of Genocide in Srebrenica?”, held today in Belgrade, agreed that the Western Balkans countries that deny Srebrenica genocide cannot become members of the European Union. They called on the EU to give 30 billion euro economic aid, which they intend to direct to the Western Balkans, under conditions of respecting the values on which the EU is based.
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