Youth Initiative for Human Rights

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."

Donors
Accessed March 2008:


 * Australian Embassy in Belgrade
 * Balkan Trust for Democracy
 * British Embassy-Belgrade
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 * Civil Dialogue
 * Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD)
 * Danish Embassy-Belgrade
 * East-East Program (Soros)
 * Embassy of Finland-Belgrade
 * Embassy of France-Belgrade
 * Embassy of Germany-Belgrade
 * Embassy of Netherlands-Belgrade
 * Embassy of the United States of America - Belgrade
 * Freedom House
 * French Cultural Centre, Belgrade
 * Friedrich Ebert Foundation
 * Fund for an Open Society-Serbia
 * Heinrich Böll Foundation
 * Konrad Adenauer Foundation
 * Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society
 * National Endowment for Democracy
 * Norwegian People's Aid
 * Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
 * Quaker Peace and Social Witness
 * Rockefeller Brothers Fund
 * Royal Norwegian Embassy-Belgrade
 * Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
 * Swiss Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * United Nations Development Programme
 * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
 * United States Institute of Peace
 * US Office Pristina

YIHR Partners
Accessed March 2008:


 * 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