Background
The only child of an advocate and a chemist, Zlata grew up in a middle-class family.
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Zlata Filipovic
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She attended Saint Andrew"s College, Dublin (a senior school), going on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a Bachelor in human sciences, and has lived in Dublin, Ireland since October 1995, where she studied at Trinity College Dublin.
Career
She was an honor student, with ambitions to became a journalist. From 1991-1993, she wrote in her diary, Mimmy, about the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, through which she lived. Zlata and her family survived and escaped to Paris, in 1993 where they stayed for a year.
Zlata has continued to write.
She wrote the foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary and co-edited Stolen Voices: Young People"s War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq. She appeared on the French talk show Tout le monde en parle on 19 November 2006.
She currently lives in Dublin, and works in the field of documentary and other film production. Campaign created by BeLonG To, an LGBTQ youth service organisation in Ireland against homophobic bullying in schools.
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She has spoken extensively at schools and universities around the world on issues of children in conflict. She is a recipient of the Child of Courage Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles (1994).
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In 2011, she produced the short film Stand Up! for the Stand Up!.
Membership
She served on the Executive Committee of Amnesty International Ireland (2007-2013) and is a founding member of NYPAW (Network of Young People Affected by War). She was a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Jury for the Prize for Children and Young People"s Literature for Tolerance.
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