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Youth Center Zenica – A Place Where Young People Organize
More than 1,000 young people have participated in the activities of the Youth Center Zenica, which was established a little over five years ago in this Bosnian city, in accordance with the Youth Law of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH). They have hosted more than a hundred projects and around 500 activities conducted by various organizations from several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Needs a Law on Media Ownership Transparency
The media in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) depends on public, partisan and government funding. Meanwhile BiH journalists lack institutional protection, and therefore need an improvement in the media legislative framework. This is what research shows, conducted among 80 journalists from across Bosnia and Herzegovina, of various ages and genders, working in print and electronic, private and public media.

Censorship in the Modern World
It was the English poet and civil servant, John Milton, who said of free speech: “For this is the freedom that most of all gives happiness or misery, or success or disappointment, or honor or shame.” This statement remains one of the most powerful on this topic, as it recognizes a fundamental truth about human nature: we, as a species, naturally aspire to freedom. Humans are beings who impose boundaries and frameworks. We are taught modes of behavior and we go through life alongside them. Freedom of speech is inherent within all freedoms. In the modern world, where fluent discourse is propagated, hidden forms of censorship often arise.

Tomašica: The Largest Mass Grave in Europe Since World War II
In 2013, the largest mass grave site in Europe since World War II was discovered on the outskirts of Prijedor in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

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Memorialization in Prijedor through judicially established facts
Last month, the Post Conflict Research Center and Sarajevo Memorial Center organized the inaugural International Youth School Prijedor in May 2024. The school included a visit to the Tomašica mass grave, an international conference on the use of detention camps, and participation in the White Armband Day memorial walk.

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Keraterm and Trnopolje: Two Camps that Defined the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
During the War in BiH, places of everyday life suddenly turned into epicenters of the most horrendous crimes imaginable. Schools and factories were transformed into campsites that were used to detain the civilian population and inflict collective trauma. The infamous camps in the Keraterm tile factory and the local school in Trnopolje offer insightful examples for analyzing the Bosnian Serb camp system during the war.

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