Four students enrolled in a legal clinic in Montenegro are attending the Regional Human Rights School in Vrdnik, Republic of Serbia, held from 11 to 14 April 2022.

Anja Tičić, Sara Martinović, Ena Nokić and Bogdan Malavrazić will have a chance to gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills on Human Rights and New Technologies, together with students from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo*.

This regional school presents a great opportunity for students from the region to connect and exchange knowledge and experiences, while having the honour of learning from the most eminent international and regional experts in the field of human rights. A moot court competition will be organised on the last day of the school.

The Regional School is organised within the co-operation between actions “Strengthening effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia“ and “Improved procedural safeguards in judicial proceedings in Montenegro“, both part of the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”.

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.