PRAVO LJUDSKI Human Rights Film Festival

CIPS

19 June 2006

The Pravo LjudskiHuman Rights Film Festival, a project developed with the intention to raise public awareness and spread human rights culture through film, started last Saturday, June 17, in Sarajevo.

The aim of the Festival alongside with the promotion of personal freedoms and rights, promotion of the non-discriminatory approach as a basis for affecting the public opinion on human rights and equality in enjoyment of the human rights and freedoms, is to empower every individual on the importance of personal devotion to human rights promotion and respect can/will make a difference.

The main objective of Pravo Ljudski is to promote a forum for debate on human rights, democracy and rule of law, equality, and human development. It also aims to disclose the human rights abuses, inequality, violence against women and children, social marginalization and exclusion and inspire solidarity, mutual understanding and the importance of personal devotion to human rights through creating effective contact with the victims of the human rights abuses.

The Festival has an educational character, and in duration of three days will focus on three broad themes - women, children and minorities through screening socially conscious films, as well as organize panel discussions, debates, and press conferences. About two dozen films are included in the programme of the Festival.

Pravo Ljudski applies the one day-one subject approach, realized through the films projections and panel discussions daily, thus recognizing the most important problems in the sphere of discussion (marginalized groups: women, children (including Roma children) and ethnic/religious/sex minorities) worldwide, underlying both the root causes and the possible necessary actions to be taken addressing and raising awareness among both the stakeholders, victims and the broad public.