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Exactly ten years ago, on February 11, 1995, 55 founders of the Helsinki Committee gathered in one of the spaces of the National Theatre in Sarajevo, and adopted a decision to establish the first non-governmental organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a mission to protect and promote human rights and freedoms. They took this decision in the midst of the besieged city of Sarajevo, guided by their belief that such an organization that would gather the citizens on such a basis, would indeed be more than necessary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, once it starts healing its war wounds and establishing a democratic society in which each and every individual would and should enjoy all the rights provided for in international conventions.

The editorial board of the DANI magazine has selected 10 individuals who “made this country better”. One of them is Srdjan Dizdarevic, the founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Managing Board of the Human Rights House of Sarajevo and Vice President of the International Helsinki Federation. (31-JAN-05)
 

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina published the Report on the state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Analysis for the period January – December 2004).

Human Rights House in Sarajevo, in partnership with the Helsinki Committee of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, finished launched project „Children’s rights – practice and strategy in BiH“ . After 14 round tables, their final destination was Sarajevo, where they held the 15th round table under the same project title. This round table, held on December 9, 2004, gathered more than 75 teachers, psychologists, social workers, directors, representatives of competent ministries and government, NGO`s activists, representatives of primary school pupils, activists from local youth councils and media, from the region of Sarajevo, Jajce and Srebrenica.

The regular Annual General Meeting of the International Helsinki Federation, held in Moscow on 11-14 November, has elected the new management of the International Helsinki Federation for the next two years. The new President is Ulrich Fischer from Germany, a longstanding expert in human rights, who was a member of and later worked for the German Bundestag, and Vice President is Srdjan Dizdarevic, the founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and President of the Managing Board of the Human Rights House of Sarajevo. (17-NOV-04)
 

Statement “Human rights defenders need stronger international support and protection” is now available also in Bosnian language. (27-10-04)
 

The basic characteristic of the local elections held inBosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 2004 was low level of interest and low voter turnout: out of 2,327,014 registered voters, 45.52% of BiH citizens with the right to vote in Bosnia and Herzegovina turned out to vote at 4057 polling stations in total. (5-OCT-04)
 

The election campaigns for local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina , which will take place on Saturday, 2 October 2004, were conducted in a by and large democratic atmosphere characterized by fairness and absence of any major incidents that might have put in question the validity of the elections. (29-SEP-04)
 

Saturday night, the Human Rights House in Sarajevo was broken into. Computers which contained the complete documentation and archives of the Helsinki Committee were stolen. The organisation suspects that the motive was political. (27-SEP-04)