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Ex-Bosnian war commander found dead
Ismet Bajramovic–Celo, right, a Sarajevo wartime commander and alleged mafia godfather, has been found dead in his apartment. Initial evidence suggests that he may have committed suicide.
Montenegrin NGOs not consulted for the UN UPR process
Slobodan Franovic (on right), President of the Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, reacts quite strongly against his own country’s recent hearing before United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism in Geneva.
Ethnic divisions again threaten Bosnia
Thirteen years after the United States brokered the Dayton peace agreement to end modern Europe’s most ferocious ethnic war, fears are mounting that Bosnia and Herzegovina, poor and divided, is again teetering toward crisis.
Lajcak: Stop criticizing us
The Office of Bosnia’s top international envoy, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak, has demanded local leaders stop their growing criticism of the international community.
Human Rights Day and Free hugs in Sarajevo
Youth group of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H held a street action in the centre of Sarajevo on occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Right to healthy enviroment violated in B&H
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized on 4th December in Sarajevo a round table on topic „Human Rights in the Area of Enviroment and Sustainable Development“. Round table was supported by Heinrich Boll Foundation.
Norway convicts Bosnian on 1992 war crimes
A Bosnian muslim was jailed for five years on Tuesday for crimes against Serb civilians during the war in Bosnia in 1992 in the first war crimes case in Norway since the trials of Norwegians who collaborated with the Nazis.
Street Action in Sarajevo
In occasion of 60th Anniversary of Unversal Declaration on Human Rights and International Human Rights Day
Presentation by Sebastian Roetters
“Peace Brigades International and political situation in Columbia”