We call for the responsibility of the director of the school in Kać and the mayor of Novi Sad for celebrating a war criminal
Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR Serbia) requests from the Ministry of Education to determine the responsibility of Verica Letić, the principal of the elementary school “Đura Jakšić” in Kać, for the participation of convicted war criminal Nebojša Pavković in a public class organized by this school on April 20th on the topic “Košare: Stories of Heroes” in the hall of this school. According to the daily newspaper “Politika” and the video report of the “Gradske info” portal, the mayor of Novi Sad, Milan Đurić, also spoke at the public event. That’s why we call on the councilor groups in the Assembly of the City of Novi Sad to initiate the impeachment of the mayor because his presence supported Pavković’s participation in this event and normalized the presentation of a war criminal as a hero in front of an audience that included elementary school students.
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Empowered Youth: Prishtina Study Visit
Eighteen young people from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo visited Pristina for the first time as part of the Study Visit to Pristina, which was part of Mirëdita, dobar dan! festival from May 4 to 6. During the three-day exchange, students had the opportunity to meet human rights and peace activists, as well as representatives of Kosovo institutions, and discuss minority rights in Kosovo, linguistic segregation, war crimes in Kosovo, as well as about the importance of memorialization.
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The tenth edition of the festival “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” closed last night in Pristina
The tenth edition of the “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” festival ended last night in Pristina, with the presentation of the award to Bekim Blakaj, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, and the theater performance “Would be a shame if the plants died”.
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YIHR Serbia demands the dismissal of the Minister of Education Branko Ruzic!
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia (YIHR Serbia) demands the immediate dismissal of the Minister of Education, Branko Ruzic, due to the political instrumentalization of the tragedy at Elementary School “Vladislav Ribnikar”. We also call for accountability of Veselin Milic, the chief of the Belgrade police, for publicizing the list of names of the minor victims and mentioning the juvenile offender’s name. The legality of disclosing this information must be reviewed by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data, the Ombudsman of Serbia, the Internal Control Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prosecutor office.
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