SERBIA: YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

 

YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) is a regional network of non-governmental organisations with programmes in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The headquarters of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights are situated in Belgrade, Zagreb, Podgorica, Sarajevo and Prishtina.

Since their foundation in 2003, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights has been fighting for the same values. The basic values of the Initiative are truth, justice, accountability, equality, freedom, democracy and peace.

The focus of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights is on societies and citizens, above all the youth, who are least familiar with the events and war crimes committed during the 1990s, where nationalist ideologies, which led to wars and where all sides celebrate their war criminals as “heroes”, still prevail.

The regional network of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights has won numerous national and

international awards, including the Vaclav Havel Award for Human Rights for 2019, awarded by the Council of Europe.

More about YIHR: https://www.yihr.rs/en/about-us/