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With the installation “Flower that Remains”, Belgrade remembers Srebrenica genocide victims

Activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights installed 11 Srebrenica flowers on Srebrenička Street in Belgrade as a type of memorial called “The Flower that Remains” on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. The flowers are made of buttons, which are reminiscent of materials found in mass graves where victims were secretly buried.

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There Can Be No Normalization of Relations Between Serbia and Kosovo Without Respect for the Rights of Minority Communities

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.

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Eighth YIHR Youth Summit Held in Novi Pazar

From 22 to 24 June 2026, more than 110 young activists, students, journalists, researchers, artists and civic leaders from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Croatia gathered in Novi Pazar for the eighth Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) Youth Summit.

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Regional Advocacy Forum Held in Belgrade as Part of the RYLMP Program

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), with financial support from the Open Society Foundations – Western Balkans, organized a Regional Advocacy Forum as part of the Regional Youth Leadership and Mobility Programme (RYLMP) on June 30 at the Miljenko Dereta venue. The forum provided young researchers with an opportunity to present the findings of their months-long research projects, as well as the policy recommendations they developed while working in regional teams composed of participants from Albania, Serbia, and North Macedonia.

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