BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Nineteen-year-old Branko Bujic has the hands of a fighter. Rough and calloused from where the knuckles have split, scarred from the impact of hitting skin one too many times. Growing up training mixed martial arts and involved in a neighborhood gang in the Serb-run part of Bosnia, his fighting hands have served him well.

BELGRADE, Serbia — “A lot of people were not found,” she added, gazing at the place her office once sat, now a pile of debris visible to anyone who walks by. “There is a feeling that they are still here. It is like working in a graveyard.”

PRISTINA, Kosovo — “To consider yourself a feminist here in Kosovo, it is still a struggle, you become part of a target group,” Doruntina Stojkaj-Gashi, a Prishtina University student said. “This march is important to change that.”