page_title: Bosfam
section_title: Srebrenica Memorial Quilt
hierarchical_section_title: Bosfam / Projects / Srebrenica Memorial Quilt
caption_attribution_description: English: Srebrenica Memorial Quilt
context_page_description: Bosfam is a non-governmental organization that provides psychosocial and economic assistance to women affected by the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. It was founded in May 1995 by women participating in an Oxfam GB psycho-social 'radionice' project to support internally displaced Bosnian women. In May 1995 Oxfam deployed one of its national staff members, Munira Beba Hadzic, to coordinate and support the establishment of a local NGO out of the successful EU funded women's support project. Oxfam also supported Ms Hadzic to travel to the UN Beijing women's conference in 1995.
context_section_description: In 2007, Bosfam launched the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt project. Under this project, the women of Bosfam weave large quilts made up of individual panels, each of which commemorates a person killed or went missing during the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995. The quilts contain the victims’ names, whereas Bosfam’s website provides these individuals’ photos, brief biographical information, and the date and site of burial if the body has been identified and buried. The reason behind this focus on individuals is to bring identity to the victims and to counteract the phenomenon of reducing massacre victims to mere numbers. Bosfam has woven 15 memorial quilts commemorating nearly 300 victims before the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on 11 July 2010. BOSFAM considers the quilt to be “owned” by all Bosnians who were affected by the Srebrenica massacre.
  The goal of the memorial quilts is not just to honor the dead and missing, but also to serve as an active instrument for social change – to keep the memory of the massacre alive, demand accountability for the atrocities in Srebrenica, and contribute to efforts of rebuilding Srebrenica and supporting the returnees. The quilts have been displayed at dozens of exhibitions and events in Europe and North America with the help of Bosfam’s Washington-based partner The Advocacy Project to raise awareness of the tragedy in Srebrenica and to act as a tool for human rights advocacy. Most importantly, one of the quilts was used at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia based in The Hague to lobby at the trial of Radovan Karadžić, former president of the Bosnian Serbs.
caption: Srebrenica Memorial Quilt
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