Youth Initiative for Human Rights

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Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) "is a regional non-governmental organisation with programmes in the territories of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. YIHR was formed by young people from these countries in order to enhance youth participation in democratisation of the society and empowerment of the rule of law by driving processes of facing the past and establishing new progressive connections in the post-conflict region of the former Yugoslavia. YIHR was established in 2003. More than 30 people work on it's various projects on a daily basis, while several hundred volunteers participate in the organisation's activities." [1]

Donors

Accessed March 2008: [2]

YIHR Partners

Accessed March 2008: [3]

  • Belgrade District Court’s War Crimes Chamber
  • Centre for Democratic Initiatives-Jagodina
  • Centre for Multicultural Education in Preševo
  • Centre for Tolerance and Interreligious Relations
  • Centre for Social Emancipation
  • Civic Action for Human Rights-Priboj
  • CIVIS
  • Committee for Human Rights -Bujanovac
  • Committee for Human Rights-Negotin
  • Committee for Human Rights-Niš
  • Gayten LGBT
  • FAMA International-Sarajevo
  • Forum of Slovaks – Backi Petrovac
  • Helsinki Committee for the Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Bulgarians-Dimitrovgrad
  • Humanitarian Law Center
  • ICTY Outreach Office
  • LGBT Vojvodina
  • Lambda LGBT Human Rights and Queer Culture Center
  • Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM)
  • Local Democracy Agency-Subotica
  • Movement of Mothers from the Enclaves of Srebenica and Žepa-Sarajevo
  • Resource Centre Leskovac
  • Quaker Peace and Social Witness
  • Queeria
  • Labris
  • Sanjak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights
  • Taboo Zrenjanin
  • The European Law Students Organization (ELSA)

Contact

Web: http://www.yihr.org

Resources and articles

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References

  1. About, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, accessed March 12, 2008.
  2. Donors, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, accessed March 12, 2008.
  3. Donors, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, accessed March 12, 2008.