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Remembering Srebrenica [Scotland] is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) No SCO46540. We believe that to promote a stronger, more cohesive future for all, it is essential to learn lessons from the genocide in Srebrenica.

With your help, we can do just that, so please assist us to promote a better, more tolerant society here in Scotland. A society that prizes understanding and cohesion. And a society that promises always to learn, yet never to forget.

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July 31, 2018 Information

Bakira Hasečić recieves honour from Glasgow Caledonia University

Bakira Hasečić, a survivor of ethnic cleansing from Višegrad in Bosnia-Herzgovina was presented with an honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University. This honour was bestowed on Bakira Hasečić in recognition of Bakira’s efforts as a human rights advocate and unifying force for victims of wartime sexual violence. Bakira was presented the award by the recently […]

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May 4, 2018 News

White Armband Day 2018

On Wednesday 30th May, Remembering Srebrenica Scotland held an event at the Scottish Parliament to learn about the Srebrenica Genocide in to commemorate White Armband Day. White Armband Day, is marked by Bosnian communities across the world on 31st May, not only to remember the victims of persecution in Prijedor but also to raise awareness […]

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May 1, 2018 Information

Lessons From Srebrenica: Teacher Training Conference

Purpose of the Conference Remembering Srebrenica Scotland was established as a charity in 2015. It organises commemoration events to mark the acts of genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s. Through raising awareness of this period of history, the charity hopes to build safer communities by learning the lessons of what happened and why. Remembering Srebrenica […]

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April 20, 2018 Information

Remembering Srebrenica Scotland All-Women ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ Delegation 2018

In April 2018, Remembering Srebrenica Scotland organised an all women’s delegation. Delegates included Chair of Remembering Srebrenica Scotland, Very Rev Dr Lorna Hood OBE, Former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Kezia Dugdale.     Representatives from Young Scot, Colleges Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University, Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre, Christian Aid and the Glasgow Women’s […]

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July 17, 2017 News

Glasgow Commemoration Breaks the Silence on Sexual Violence

Scotland's national commemoration for Srebrenica took place at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art.

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June 29, 2017 News

Remembering Srebrenica (Scotland) receives Scottish Government grant to tackle prejudice and hate crime

Funding boost for Remembering Srebrenica (Scotland).

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June 16, 2017 Information

Scottish Labour Leader Visits Scene of Srebrenica Genocide

Kezia Dugdale MSP becomes the third party leader in Scotland to visit Srebrenica and learn from the survivors of the worst atrocity on European soil since World War Two.

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June 9, 2017 2018 Memorial Events, Events

2018 Events in Scotland

  27 June – Pupil Conference: Lessons From Srebrenica – Dollar Academy 2 July – National Scotland Commemoration – St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow 8-15 July- Srebrenica Exhibition- Glasgow Central Mosque  13 July-  Jumma Khutba- Glasgow Central Mosque  13 July- Jum’ah khutbah- Beardsden Muslim Association   Jun 9, 2017Amy Drake

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June 1, 2017 News

Scottish MSPs Come Together to Tackle Hatred on White Armband Day

On the 25th anniversary of the decree by Bosnian Serb authorities that non Serbs must wear white armbands on leaving the house, a special event was held to commemorate the victims of genocide at the Scottish Parliament.

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April 25, 2017 News, ,

Aberdeen School Children Organise a Genocide Awareness Event

Students from three different schools across Aberdeen have been working together to learn the lessons from past genocides to create a better society.  Having been on a ‘Lesson’s from Auschwitz’ visit, pupils organised an event to speak about their experiences of visiting the concentration camp, and to raise awareness of genocide. Remembering Srebrenica’s Partnerships Officer, Amra […]

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February 3, 2017 Information

Remembering Srebrenica Scotland Signs Memorandum

Remembering Srebrenica Scotland took the important step of signing a Memorandum of Understanding to comply with charity commission regulations at the end of 2016.

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November 30, 2016 News

Chair of Remembering Srebrenica Addresses Head Teachers’ Conference

150 Head Teachers from across Scotland learned about Remembering Srebrenica's work in educating young people about the dangers of hatred last week.

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