Schoolbooks Perpetuate Kosovo-Serbia Divisions in Classrooms

Schoolbooks Perpetuate Kosovo-Serbia Divisions in Classrooms

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Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb children are taught under different educational systems, using textbooks that give differing versions of history – and sometimes perpetuate ethnic prejudice and nationalist ideas, experts say.


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(srpski) Kravica

(srpski) Kravica

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Kosovo Artists Use Culture to Promote Justice and Peace

Kosovo Artists Use Culture to Promote Justice and Peace

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Artists and cultural activists from Kosovo have been using their work to address the traumas of the wartime past – but collaborations with Serbian artists intended to bridge post-war divides have sometimes sparked angry reactions.


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Rape victim referred to civil proceeding for damages

Rape victim referred to civil proceeding for damages

On September 23, 2019, the Higher Court in Belgrade sentenced defendant Dalibor Maksimović to 15 years in prison for killing four persons and raping a Bosniak woman in the Bratunac area in May 1992. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) considers that the court erred in not awarding a property claim (compensation) to the rape victim during the trial, but instead directed her to exercise her rights in a civil proceeding.

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