The regional network of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights is the winner of the prestigious Vaclav Havel Prize for Human Rights, which has been awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2009. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights was awarded today at a ceremony in Strasbourg, and in addition to the Initiative, the award was given to Ilham Tohti, an advocate and defender of Uighur community rights in China, while Buzurgmehr Yorov, a lawyer who defended and defended in Tajikistan of many political prisoners was shortlisted for the award. Ivan Đurić, Program Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia, said at the award ceremony in Strasbourg that the Initiative in the entire region will continue to work on creating a future and societies in which attitudes are not based on prejudice and unreliable information, but on personal experience and knowledge.
“We want to create a region where it will be possible, acceptable and natural for young people to meet, travel and work together, create positive changes in societies and fall in love, regardless of which Balkan country they come from, as young people do. and in the whole of Europe “, Đurić emphasized in his speech at the Vaclav Havel Award ceremony.
The Vaclav Havel Prize for the Youth Initiative for Human Rights is an incentive to oppose even more strongly the nationalist rhetoric with which the leaders of the Western Balkans seek to disrupt peace in the region, but also to create even more opportunities for citizens to strengthen cooperation between regional exchanges and dialogue. companies and the state of the region. The initiative will continue to encourage the process of dealing with the past, without which societies in the region cannot achieve lasting and sustainable peace.
The Vaclav Havel Prize has been awarded since 2009 to organizations and individuals for outstanding contributions in the field of human rights in Europe and the world. Until 2013, the award was called the “Prize of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for Human Rights”, after which it was renamed the “Vaclav Havel Prize”, in memory of the former President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights dedicates the Vaclav Havel Award to hundreds of former activists, volunteers, participants, as well as people who have created and led the Initiative’s programs throughout the region with incredible energy and knowledge for more than 15 years.
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