http://humanrightshouse.orgenHuman Rights House Foundationniels.jacob@humanrightshouse.org (Niels Jacob Harbitz)Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:42:12 GMTTue, 07 Sep 2010 20:03:14 GMTNoop 2.360http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14991http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14991.htmlAccording to the Concluding Observations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - CERD on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Roma people maintain to be the most vulnerable group in BiH, while issues such as discriminatory provisions of the Constitution of BiH, return of refugees and displaced persons, ethnic tensions and hate speech must be resolved as well.Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:42:12 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14714http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14714.htmlAlthough the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has committed itself on numerous international documents regarding the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms, on the last UPR session in June this year, on the adoption of the UPR report for BiH, out of 125 recommendations made by UN body, BiH accepted only 26 of them.Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:07:33 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14467http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14467.html''Non-implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is the main generator of human rights violations in BiH over the past years'', it is stated by the NGO Coalition for the UN up-coming session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:34:19 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14246http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14246.htmlLate last year, the BiH Parliament ruled that the Communication's Regulatory Agency - CRA, along with several other regulatory institutions, are to be categorised as administrative units. The decision, still standing, represents a threat to independence of regulatory agencies in BiH, since their classification as administrative units places them under the control of various ministries and the BiH Government.Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:31:37 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14025http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14025.htmlThree-day forum of NGOs from BiH, Balkan and EU took place in Sarajevo from Apil 14-16 2010. It was organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in BiH, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BiH, Centre Andre Malraux Sarajevo and CCFD Terre solidaire from France.Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:06:33 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14005http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14005.html"How much do children and young people know about the violence" is the research conducted by CURE Foundation in Feb/March 2010, on a sample of 310 young men and women from nine different cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Ilidza, Kiseljak, Banja Luka, Konjic, Zenica, Travnik, Doboj and Jablanica).Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:16:59 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13953http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13953.htmlOn the occasion of the World Roma Day, April 8th, regional campaign and campaign video "I'm a Roma Woman" were presented in the House of Human Rights of Sarajevo last Thursday.Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:05:48 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13675http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13675.html''Equal pay for equal work - Votes for Women - We want women's human rights every day - Stop violence against women'', were just some of many slogans that we could’ve seen and heard on the Osmomartovski march organized by CURE Foundation on Monday in Sarajevo, in occasion of the International Women's Day.Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:39:26 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13894http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13894.htmlAround 2 AM last Thursday, Serbian police apprehended 9 activists from Youth Initiative for Human Rights, who in the night between March 31st and April 1st in front of the Serbian Parliament, wrote the message in red spray paint: “That hard, foreign word - genocide”.Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:48:10 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13862http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13862.htmlSerbia's parliament has passed a landmark resolution apologising for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. The motion, approved by a narrow majority, says Serbia should have done more to prevent the tragedy.Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:58 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13844http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13844.htmlThe Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina - HCHR, said that in the last police action in the case of Bratunac – Srebrenica, there was a serious violation of human rights. ‘’Due to excessive spectacularism, which recently accompanies almost all police actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a fundamental principle which implies a presumption of innocence until a court decision making, is persistently violated’’, it is stated in press release of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:46:13 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13686http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13686.htmlThe 56 OSCE participating States appointed today Dunja Mijatovic (on right) of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:57:23 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13653http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13653.htmlHuman Rights House of Sarajevo – HRH Sarajevo, in its letter addressed to the Minister of the Human Rights and Refugees in B&H, Safet Halilovic and to the President of the Council of Ministers of B&H, Nikola Spiric, in behalf of the Informal NGO Coalition for the UPR, expressed the satisfaction over the results and the interactive dialogue during the UPR session of B&H held in late February 2010.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:31:45 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13637http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13637.htmlHelsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H - HCHR, recently published a map of its activities conducted in year 2009. The map is not only a graphic insight into the HCHR project activities, but also an insight to BH areas in which those projects were implemented.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:23:29 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13574http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13574.htmlA member of Bosnia's war-time presidency, Ejup Ganic, right, was arrested in London on Monday at the request of Serbian authorities. The arrest followed a request submitted by Serbia late on Sunday, alleging Ganic's responsibility for war crimes related to an attack by Bosnian troops against a column of Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA, troops in Sarajevo at the start of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:43 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13436http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13436.htmlHelsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H – HCHR held a conference last week for beneficiaries of the project ''Civil Society and Local Community'' and BH media. HCHR presented three reports regarding their project and organizational activities, and announced their future activities in the field of human rights.Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:31:18 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13556http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13556.htmlAs the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic resumed Monday, March 1st, in the Netherlands, a member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's rotating presidency Haris Silajdzic (on right) said that, in effect, "ethnic cleansing" continues -- 15 years after a brutal civil war there ended.Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:09:05 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13509http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13509.htmlLate this month Bosnia and Herzegovina was reviewed in Geneva under the Universal Period Review of the UN Human Rights Council. Discrimination, situation of human rights defenders and freedom of expression, status of the national human rights institution, children and women rights, rights of sexual and national minorities, and issues of disabled, internally-displaced and missing persons are some of the issues mentioned. On all these issues, Bosnia and Herzegovina has to improve its situation.Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:02:05 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13424http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13424.htmlLast week, on February 11th, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H – HCHR, organized its 15th General Assembly, where the implemented activities in 2009, the plans for 2010 and the election of the new president and members of Steering Board of the HCHR were among the key topics for discussion.Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:01:04 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13333http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13333.htmlWahhabis living in the village of Gornja Maoca near Brcko District, after the police action “Svjetlost" set the checkpoint at the entrance to their village and started legitimating everyone who is unknown to them.Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:08:24 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13278http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13278.htmlThe current president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H - HCHR, Srdjan Dizdarevic, right, has announced his imminent departure from the NGO sector, and his move to active political life in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:27:38 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13288http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13288.htmlAround 600 police officers and security personnel of B&H private security companies have started conducting the police action "Svjetlost" ("Light"). The goal of the action is to identify persons who pose a threat to the state security. So far six persons have been arrested, and recently group of journalists attacked.Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:08:24 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13241http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13241.htmlThe Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H strongly condemns the use of hate speech against journalist, Duska Jurisic, right, who was recently dismissed from the position of editor-in-chief of News Program of Television of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FTV).Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:15 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13145http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13145.htmlHuman rights protections in the Western Balkans lag behind aspirations for European integration, Human Rights Watch said today. In its World Report 2010, Human Rights Watch documents human rights conditions and issues in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo.Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:48:32 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12719http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12719.htmlAs part of the build- to the forthcoming UPR hearing on Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) in February 2010, the Human Rights House of Sarajevo has raised some of the most pressing human rights issues in the country with Alex Lenaerts, Head of Belgian Embassy's Diplomatic Office in Sarajevo.Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:10:50 GMT