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Serbia’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.

The 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.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2005, Wahu Kaara

The 56 OSCE participating States appointed today Dunja Mijatovic (on right) of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

”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.

Human 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.

Helsinki 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.

International Women’s Day 2010

Go and march for 8th of March