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2nd part of Education Program
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Bosnian Serb cousins convicted by UN tribunal over horrific burnings
The United Nations tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s, convicted on July 20th two Bosnian Serb cousins of war crimes, including the burning alive of scores of Muslim women, children and elderly men, an act the court said ranks among “the worst acts of inhumanity that a person may inflict upon others.”
European Commission divides South Eastern Europe
V.i.S.d.P. notes with great concern the current visa policy for South Eastern Europe (SEE) of the European Commission, which risks to create two classes of citizens in SEE, based on ethnicity. Their appeal is followed by online-call for signatures supported already by Christian Schwarz-Schilling, MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP Doris Pack, Bärbel Bohley, MdB Marieluise Beck, Tilman Zülch, Schüler Helfen Leben, Young European Federalists and many others.
Draft of the joint report for UPR presented to NGO sector in B&H
Human Rights House of Sarajevo (HRH Sarajevo) held a press conference for journalists and public debate for NGO sector on July 9th, regarding the Draft of the Joint NGO Report for UPR of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010.
Fascism in student dormitories
Human Rights House Sarajevo supported Association Q’s call against discrimination of LGBTIQ persons in B&H. The call is motivated by recent incident that happened in Sarajevo, where a gay person was submitting his request for the accommodation and was rejected because the director of the student dormitory “does not admit gays”.
GELBiH: Roll-back of human rights
The new draft of the Gender Equality Law BiH (GELBiH) is finally released, and the Gender Agency BiH presented several improvements on the law. However, the working group for the new draft of the GELBiH2 decided to remove the clause on “harassment and violence based on sexual orientation”.
Say NO to the waiting list for Herceptin
Association Renesansa from Bosnia and Herzegovina is organizing petition signing in Sarajevo for the elimination of the waiting list for the cure against breast cancer, Herceptin. In the most regional countries, this cure is available for all women who suffer from the breast cancer, while 87 women in Federation B&H are on the waiting list for it.