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November 11, 2008

Sarajevo: Ban cluster bombs

Youth group of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina held a street action on 28th of October along with the members of the project The Ban Bus 2008. The street action was a part of a public campaign for banning cluster bombs.

November 11, 2008

Meeting of Regional Schools

Discussion about the status of the Republic of Kosovo, its relations toward the Republic of Serbia, and arranging the set of activities for the forthcoming Human Rights Day on the 10th of December

November 7, 2008

B&H is still without ombudsman

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina has published today a press release, expressing its concern regarding the long selection process of the Ombudsmen for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the need of having such institution already established.

November 6, 2008

Balkan NGOs against the prosecution of Florence Hartmann

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina signed on 3rd November 2008, the Joint Public Statement together with 33 more non-governmental organizations from the Balkan region, against the prosecution of Florence Hartmann.

November 4, 2008

B&H authorities allies to perpetrators

“The perpetrators of violence, authors of threats and calls for lynch remain undisclosed and unpunished, which gives us the right to say that the government is most frequently the inspirer and the ally, if not the direct executor of the attacks against human rights defenders”, says Srdjan Dizdarevic, president of the Helsinki Committee in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

October 22, 2008

Six applications against Bosnia and Herzegovina

In late September, the Swiss Association against Impunity (TRIAL – Track Impunity Always) lodged six cases before the European Court of Human Rights. The cases concern a massacre that took place on 21 August 1992 at Mount Vlasic, in which around 200 civilians were killed.

October 21, 2008

Seminar on the Status of Human Rights Defenders

When: Thursday, 9. October 2008 10:00 To: Thursday, 9. October 2008 Where: Sarajevo, Hotel Holiday Inn, Zmaja od Bosne 4 Host: Human Rights House Sarajevo Contact: Mirsad Pandzic (

October 21, 2008

Annual Network Meeting for the Human Rights Network

When: Friday, 10. October 2008 09:00 To: Sunday, 12. October 2008 Where: Sarajevo, Ante Fijamenga 14b Host: Human Rights House Sarajevo Contact: Srdjan Dizdarevic (

September 29, 2008

Media representatives receive death threats

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is concerned about death threats against several media representatives in Bosnia following coverage of Queer festival.