The State of Serbia Has Banned Collaboration Between Artists from Serbia and Kosovo
Today, after 2:00 p.m, The Youth Initiative for Human Rights received verbal notification from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia regarding the ban on all events within the “Miredita, Dobar Dan” festival. The ban was formally communicated as an order to cease the gathering, initially verbally and then in writing, encompassing all the activities associated with the festival, both public events and those intended solely for participants.
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Why am I against the Ban on the Festival “Mirëdita, dobar dan”?
One of the volunteers engaged in an NGO in Belgrade, an Albanian from Pristina, talks over the phone with her worried mom׃ “Don’t worry, mom, I’m having a great time here.” Another frightened teenager who had been refusing to go to Croatia for summer vacation with his parents, believing that he would be slaughtered there by the Ustashas, returned from a trip through Istria with completely different views.
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Youth Initiative for Human Rights Winner of the Aachen Peace Award 2024
Youth Initiative for Human Rights selected as the winner of the Aachen Peace Award 2024 together with the “Grannies Against The Right Wing Parties” (Omas gegen Rechts). This important recognition of our work comes amidst challenging times where maintaining and preserving peace is a global imperative.
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YIHR organized a panel discussion about the significance of the UN General Assembly resolution regarding the Srebrenica genocide
The genocide in Srebrenica is a legal and political fact, despite the denial campaign by the authorities in Serbia and Republika Srpska, this is one of the main messages from the panel “The Significance of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Genocide in Srebrenica” organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) on Wednesday, April 24th in the Media Center in Belgrade.
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