Youth Initiative for Human Rights

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbo-Croatian: Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava, Albanian: Nisma e të Rinjve për të Drejtat e Njeriut) or YIHR is a network of autonomous non-governmental organization active in Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] It is focused on building connections and establishing cooperation between young people from different ethnic groups in Balkans.[2] The network is corecipient of the 2019 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.[3]

Youth Initiative for Human Rights
Official logo
AbbreviationYIHR
Formation2003
TypeNon-Profit
Legal statusNGO
HeadquartersRegional (Zagreb, Beograd, Sarajevo, Podgorica, Priština)
Region served
 Serbia

 Bosnia
 Croatia
 Montenegro

 Kosovo
Official language
Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, English
Staff
30
Websitewww.yihr.org

YIHR supported the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) through information dissemination and education and monitoring of human rights.[2] It also organizes visits to the International Commission on Missing Persons.[4] In 2008 Croatian branch of the organization was established which led to transformation of national offices/programs into autonomous organizations that established a regional YIHR Regional Network in 2010.[5] On 25 September 2013 the European Court of Human Rights delivered the judgment in the case of Youth Initiative for Human Rights v. Serbia stating that there has been a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and that Serbia must ensure, within three months from the date on which the judgment with the information requested.[6]

The Kosovo and Serbia branches work together on campaigns against the glorification of war criminals, which occurs in both countries.[7]

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Further reading

  • Fridman, Orli (2018). ""Too Young to Remember Determined Not to Forget": Memory Activists Engaging With Returning ICTY Convicts". International Criminal Justice Review. 28 (4): 423–437. doi:10.1177/1057567718766233.
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