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with Belgian Diplomatic Bureau

Monitoring of environmental human rights – case study

Youth Group of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked 9th November, International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, reminding all B&H citizens on the day when the Holocaust began and sending the message that we are to remember it every day.

International Campaign

New death threats against journalist Bakir Hadziomerovic (on right), one of the country’s leading investigative journalists, have provoked media organizations in B&H and international media associations to react severely against what seems to be a decline in the freedom of expression and the media in the country.

The state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has recently released a draft of the National report for the UPR. However, on a public debate which was organized by the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees (MHRR) last week, the country’s NGO sector criticized collectively its content.

Women as Political Analysts

Race for the Cure was organized in the beginning of October by local partner, Association Renesansa, for the second time in Sarajevo, with specific aim this year to collect means for medical treatment of one woman who is on the waiting list for the cure against breast cancer, Herceptin.

The trial of Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader seen as the mastermind of the worst ethnic pogroms in Europe in the post-war era, goes on today without him, since Karadzic, who is representing himself, boycotted the first day of the trial, saying he has not had enough time to prepare.