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HCHR’s report on environmental human rights in B&H

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H has recently published a report on situation of environmental human rights in B&H.

Published: December 2, 2009 Author: HCHR

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H, with the support of Heinrich Böll Foundation, has recently published a report that deals with the third generation of human rights in B&H, right to healthy life and environment.

The project report contains insights in the situations of environmental human rights in the following municipalities: Jajce, Zenica, Srebrenica, Unsko-sanski Canton (Bihac, Bosanska Krupa, Buzim) and Jablanica/Mostar (Prenj, Cvrsnica, Cabulja).

The full report in B/H/S language is available for download.

Documents:

HCHR Report on Environment

In Bosnian.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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