The Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo call on the governments of Serbia and Kosovo to halt the new wave of violations of the rights of minority communities – the Serbian community in Kosovo and the Albanian community in Serbia, which began on 28 June this year.
MoreThe 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.
MoreThe 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.
MoreWe 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.
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