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Bearing Witness: A foundation for hope
Some 20 community activists from across England travelled to Bosnia & Herzegovina in December 2015 on our 'Lessons from Srebrenica' visits programme.
Bearing Witness: Manchester people learn Srebrenica lessons
A group of people from Manchester travelled to Bosnia & Herzegovina with our 'Lessons from Srebrenica' educational visits programme to witness at first-hand the testimony of survivors and Mothers who lost loved ones in the Srebrenica genocide.
London artists’ performance honours genocide victims
A group of talented young artists will ‘rewind, retell and remember’ Srebrenica as they deliver a powerful night of music, poetry and spoken word in Barking.
Bearing Witness – Emerald Delegation
A group of young professionals from the Emerald Network travelled to Bosnia & Herzegovina with our 'Lessons from Srebrenica' educational visits programme to witness at first-hand the testimony of survivors and Mothers who lost loved ones in the Srebrenica genocide.
Beatfreeks’ performance poetry marks genocide
Creative young people from the Birmingham-based social enterprise Beatfreeks held a special Srebrenica 'Poetry Jam' during Memorial Week this year.
Manchester ‘flashmob’ flowers for Srebrenica
Manchester delegates who took part in the 'Lessons from Srebrenica' educational visits programme were inspired to stage a 'flashmob' event during Memorial Week this year.
Leading Scots support Srebrenica
Two leading figures from Scottish public life have contributed messages of support to Remembering Srebrenica.
London professionals learn lessons from Srebrenica
Top professionals from the worlds of faith, law and international relations are gathering in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide with a roundtable event that aims to raise fresh perspectives on the atrocity.
A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited
Five young people born in the year of the Srebrenica genocide take a journey into the heart of darkness in a new BBC documentary.
UK leaders mark 20th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide
This year’s 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide will be marked across the UK with a quartet of high-profile commemorative events in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
Bearing Witness – The Changing Colour of Genocide
The granddaughter of holocaust survivors, student Hannah Gershon - pictured below, right - travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina with Remembering Srebrenica as one of five people born in 1995 - the year that the Srebrenica genocide took place - as part of a documentary discovering more about the atrocity. Here, Hannah recounts her experience.
Bearing Witness – From Blackburn to Bosnia
In May 2015, pupils and teachers from Witton Park Academy, in Blackburn, travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on our ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ programme of educational visits to witness at first-hand the testimony of survivors and Mothers who lost loved ones in the Srebrenica genocide. Here, they give their accounts of the experience – filmed at the Srebrenica-Potočari […]
'Following the award ceremony on December 10, the Swedish Academy will have secured for itself a new place in history: as an enabler of genocide denial'. https://t.co/G2PJmbdzW2
The solidarity displayed by journalists who've used #BosniaWarJournalists to highlight the truth of what happened is heartening to read. It serves as a powerful
antidote to counter the revisionism peddled by Handke & shows that such people will never succeed in rewriting history
Peter Handke who denied the genocide at Srebrenica will be honoured with the Nobel Prize in a few hours time. This is an insult to the victims & survivors who have endured so much pain & suffering. Let us be clear that today should be long remembered as a shameful day in history.
Today marks #GenocidePreventionDay, yet the sad reality is that 71 years after the adoption of the convention, genocide has taken place in different decades on different continents. We must therefore continue to work hard to raise awareness, educate others and challenge denial.