Sanja Sarnavka
Sanja Sarnavka was born in 1954 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her father was a serviceman, a member of the People's Liberation Movement. During the whole of the Second World War he fought in Slovenia. In the period of Yugoslavia he showed disagreement with the system and with political conformism. Sanja was raised in a freedom-loving spirit. Her mother's first husband was killed in Bleiburg and after the War she had to manage with a small child from that marriage. Sanja Sarnavka graduated Comparative Literature and Yugoslav Languages and Literature. Just prior to and at the start of the war in the 1990s she worked at the Trešnjevka Centre for Culture, and later at the XVIII Gimnazija high school in Zagreb. During that period she witnessed the influence of war on her students, as well as the new models of behaviour based on national homogenization, which were advocated and implemented in schools from the highest levels. Since 1996 she has been involved in the work of the B.a.b.e. women's human rights group. Today she is the head of the organisation and she leads its human rights program.