In reaction to the poor human rights situation in the penal-correctional institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Civil Rights Defenders and the Bosnian Helsinki Committee have conducted eight monitori...
Twelve hard working teams from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia competed in this years Moot Court competition. After two days of oral pleadings before a demandi...
On April 20-22, we are organising the sixth moot court competition for law students in the Western Balkans. The annual competition was initiated in 2007 and since then, about 460 law students from dif...
We are concerned about the adoption of a new ordinance on gaining access to information that could have incalculable consequences on the right to a fair and just trial. The implementation of the ordin...
Civil Rights Defenders is concerned about the public debate concerning the LGBT community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We condemn the comments in the daily “Dnevni Avaz” by the representative of the Min...
Last Saturday, someone tried to burn down the bridge over the river Vardar in Macedonia’s capital Skopje. The bridge is the fastest way for the mainly ethnic Albanian population in the nearby vil...
Civil Rights Defenders is concerned about the recent threats and attacks against members of our partner organisation, the Helsinki Committee in Bosnia-Herzegovina. We call upon the authorities of Bosn...
Issues related to the rights of LGBT people are rarely a research subject in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The LGBT community seems to have ‘disappeared’ from the public discourse since the violent attacks agai...
On 9 November the Pravo Ljudski film festival opens with Civil Rights Defenders’ photo exhibition Our Rights at Kino Meeting Point in Sarajevo. “This is the only film festival in Bosnia completely ded...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the attack on the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its staff. We urge the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina to take immedia...
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