News Archive
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2011.
Press Release on War Crimes Comitted in Vukovar in the Summer of 1991.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) submitted today to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Croatia (Drzavno odvjetnistvo Republike Hrvatske – DORH) six transcripts of statements given by family members of the persons apprehended, executed or gone missing from the territory of Vukovar in 1991.
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2010.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights a Signatory to Antiracist Manifesto
Representatives of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), a network of non-governmental organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, signed the Manifesto of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement on November 2, 2010 in Paris, at the conference organized by the French organization “SOS Racism” (SOS Racisme).
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10.
2010.
Demand to Governments in the Region – Establish Regional Exchange Fund
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), a network of non-governmental organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, calls on governments in the region to commit themselves to setting up of a Regional Exchange Fund, it was said at a meeting of activists of this network, held in Montenegro on October 31, 2010. The Regional Exchange Fund shall be working on forging new ties between young people from the countries that succeeded the former Yugoslavia and encouraging exchange of youth from these countries inspired by the Franco-German model.
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2010.
„Dnevni Avaz” severely misleads the public
The network of Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Initiative), which consists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, strongly denies the allegations from the text of the newspaper “Dnevni Avaz”, published 7th July 2010 under the title “Five more organizations have left RECOM”.
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6.
2010.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Receives Threats
On June 7, 2010, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) received a threatening letter bidding that members of “pro-fascist organizations Youth Initiative for Human Rights and My Initiative movement”, who partook in “Belgrade youth march in so-called memory of the youth murdered in Tuzla”, should leave their place of residence within a year and move “to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so as to feel the benefits of human rights and other rights essential to every human being”. The letter signed with “The Balck Hand – Apis” was sent from Australia.
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5.
2010.
Belgrade – Tuzla March of Remembrance
In commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the massacre at Tuzla Gate, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) will organize a symbolic march along three sections of the Belgrade – Tuzla road to be walked on Tuesday, May 25, 2010. The march will set out at 9 AM from Kalemegdan, where a press conference will be held in the open. The three walking sections will be the urban zone of Belgrade, the road between Serbia – B&H border and Bijeljina, as well as the section between Simin Han and Tuzla.
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5.
2010.
Common statement - YIHR in Croatia and YIHR in Montenegro
Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Montenegro and Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Croatia express concern for the manner of conduction of cases for war crimes in Montenegro and Croatia. We believe that war crimes cases in Montenegro and Croatia were considerably conditioned by political circumstances and not enogh independent. This is reflected in preinvestigation and investigation phases of cases, preparation of indictments, conduction of trials and delivering judgments.
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13.
4.
2010.
Medak Pocket Case: National Trials in Croatia
Sorry! This news is available only in Croatian.
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4.
2010.
Music as a Counter to Silence on War
Belgrade bands Multietnička atrakcija, Repetitor, Lira vega, Stuttgart online and Superkvartet performed on the Plateau in front of the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy last evening, at the concert titled “Listen ‘ere – let your eyes see, let your ears hear”, organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) to mark the 18th anniversary of the anti-war project Rimtutituki and remind of the day when, 18 years earlier, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina had broken out. In spite of rain and cold weather, the event at the Plateau gathered over 200 people.
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4.
2010.
Police Apprehends Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ Activists
Around 2 AM this morning the police apprehended nine Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ (YIHR) activists, who in the night between March 31st and April 1st wrote in red spray paint on the pavement of the plateau in front of the Serbian Parliament the following message: “That tough foreign word genocide”. Some 30 activists intended the message for Serbian MPs, apropos the Declaration condemning the crime in Srebrenica, which MPs passed on March 30, 2010. Activists were released from Stari Grad police station five hours later. Sanitation workers removed the message from the pavement around 3.15 AM.
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