Coventry’s Lord Mayor has been given a copper picture of Sarajevo after two young disabled people went to the city to discuss human rights.

The seminar organised by the European Human Bridges Project last month was attended by Lani Parker and Scott Routledge. They both have cerebral palsy and use wheelchairs.

As Sarajevo is one of Coventry’s twin cities, Lord Mayor Cllr Sheila Collins sent a gold Coventry Millennium medal as gift out to the city’s mayor with the participants.

And they returned with a copper picture of some of Sarajevo’s landmarks, which they formally handed over this week.

The seminar, titled 'Disabled Young People and Human Rights' was held to promote integration between disabled and non-disabled young people.

Scott Routledge said:

"There were so many different people communicating in so many different languages it was fantastic and Sarajevo is just the best city.”

The participants came from Sweden, France, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia and the UK.

There were 30 participants between 17 and 30 years of age and about half were disabled young people.

A team of four people organised the seminar. One of them, Nik Paddison, works as a Youth Worker in Foleshill for the Venue Youth Arts Project.

The main element of the seminar was the investigation into case studies on Human Rights issues for disabled young people.

Each of the participants was in a team of lawyers, either defence or prosecution.

Their role was to create witnesses, testimonies and documentation to support their case, which went before three judges, from the group, who would try each case in turn.

Lani Parker said:

"It was amazing in the court room. I was really nervous, it was like we were really fighting for our case".