The Helsinki Committees from Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro will organize traveling regional school of human rights for youth, first of that kind in the region. Starting on Friday, 18 May, the one-week school will invite more than 20 activists of the Helsinki Youth Groups to visit the places most affected by recent wars in the region. (14-MAY-07)

Written by Goran Milakovic/HRH

The journey will start in Sarajevo, where the participants will be accommodated during the school. From there, the pupils will make one-day visits to places such as Mostar and Srebrenica, where war crimes occurred as a result of hatred and armed conflict in the 90-is.

In order to get the overall picture of what is been going on during the war, young activists from the region will have the opportunity to meet with the victims and witnesses of these events, as well as with human rights defenders and experts from the region.  


The “Traveling Regional School of Human Rights” has now become a part of the years long efforts of the Helsinki Committees in the Balkans to educate young people on human rights and means of peaceful conflict resolution. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee initiated the idea for the School on the basis of activities and experiences of the Norwegian organization “Travelers for Peace”.