Human Rights Conference hosted for MK students

Learning from the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides that have taken place across the World was the theme of a Human Rights and Responsibilities Conference we hosted in association with the Holocaust Educational Trust & Remembering Srebrenica, involving students from eight secondary schools across Milton Keynes. 

In a hugely powerful event, students learnt about the Holocaust and the Bosnian Genocide of the 1990s, as well as hearing about the impact the current war in Ukraine is having around the World. 

Paul Salver BEM, from the Holocaust Education Trust led the event with other speakers including the Mayor of MK; Edina Crnkic, a survivor of the Bosnian Genocide and Vicktoriya Shtanko & Melania Borysenko from Ukraine.  Denbigh’s Sixth Form Student Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassadors were also able to share what they have learnt in their ambassadorial roles, including their poignant visit to Auschwitz.

As the Conference drew to a close, the audience were given the chance to decorate the Tree of Kindness with reflections of what they had heard during the Conference or a message of kindness. 

Mr Steed said: ‘We are proud to have hosted this Conference for the young people of Milton Keynes which delivered the message that all social, cultural and racial groups need to stand against racism and intolerance through knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides’.