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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, eleventh year in a row, reported about a state of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the PRESS Conference, held today, in the Human Rights House of Sarajevo, at the presence of more than 20 media agencies, Srdjan Dizdarevic, president of the Helsinki Committee, shortly presented mayor sequences of their findings on Human Rights situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005. (17-JAN-2006)

The trial of five members of the Serb para-military formation “Scorpions” for murder of six imprisoned Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995 started yesterday before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber. They were arrested this year and accused of war crimes after the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague had presented, at the beginning of June, a video showing the murders. (21-DEC-05)

On the occasion of 10 December, the International Day of Human Rights, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina wishes to draw attention of all levels of government and of the public to the unacceptably poor status of the Roma minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (09-DEC-05)

On 28 November 2005, the trial of the so-called “Zvornik Group” commenced before the War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade. Branko Grujic, Branko Popovic, Dragan Slavkovic, Ivan Korac, Sinisa Filipovic, Dragutin Dragicevic, and Dusko Vuckovic, who died in prison last week, have been accused of murder of at least 22 and forceful deportation of 1822 Bosnian Muslim civilians from the Zvornik municipality. (02-DEC-2005)

Consciously and intentionally, directly or indirectly, the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child have been continuously violated in the Una-Sana Canton over the past ten years, said Sejfo Mustafic (right), chairman of the Velika Kladusa Municipal Council. (23-NOV-05)

Representatives of Helsinki Committees and other human rights organizations from throughout Europe, Central Asia and North America, meeting in Budapest for the General Assembly meeting of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) expressed their concern that human rights are in retreat in the OSCE region, with human rights defenders and civil society structures threatened especially in the name of preserving security. (21-NOV-05)

A court in Banja Luka has sentenced Dragan Radakovic, Drasko Krndija and Radoslav Knezevic, three former members of the Bosnian Serb police, to prison time ranging from 15 to 20 years for war crimes, i.e. murders of six Bosnian Muslim civilians during the war. This is the first verdict for war crimes at a court in Republika Srpska since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended ten years ago. (18-NOV-05)

The International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia acquitted Wednesday in The Hague former commander of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 53-year-old Sefer Halilovic (right), of charges of responsibility for murders of Croat civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. (17-NOV-05)

One of the most famous personalities of modern American history, a racial equality activist, Rosa Parks, has died at the age of 92. Almost fifty years ago, her act of civil disobedience had enthused the forces of perhaps the biggest social change of the 20th century. (27-OCT-2005)