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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded on 11 February, 1995. It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization. The aim of the Committee is the protection and promotion of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

 

Journal of the
Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights in B&H
(bosnian language)

No. 13 > July 2009
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News

Sarajevo, 11 February 2010

REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

(January - December 2009)

In the year 2009, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina [hereinafter: HCHR BIH] continued to monitor the state of human rights and freedoms, their promotion and protection in line with international standards. The Committee has used press releases, reports, letters to local and international institutions, in order to draw attention of the institutions and the public to the widespread discrimination in the society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, resulting in numerous and harsh violations of human rights and freedoms of citizens.

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Map of activities of the Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights in B&H by projects
realised in 2009

Sarajevo, 15 February 2010

R E P O R T
of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights on measures taken to combat racism, intolerance, and ethnic and religious discrimination and segregation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

 

Sarajevo, 30 January 2010

Monitoring of execution of criminal sanctions
in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the year 2009, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina [hereinafter: HCHR BIH] worked on implementation of the project „Treatment of prisoners in BiH – monitoring of the ways and conditions of execution of criminal sanctions and advocating establishment of an independent complaints body“. The project was implemented with kind support of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

The HCHR teams visited 13 facilities for execution of criminal sanctions in BiH: in the Federation, the correctional facilities of Tomislavgrad – Busovača Section, Sarajevo, Zenica,  Bihać, Tuzla, with departments in Kozlovac and Orašje, and Mostar, and in Republika Srpska, the correctional facilities of Banjaluka, Foča  and Kula  in East Sarajevo, and the district prisons of Bijeljina, Doboj and Trebinje. The Psychiatric Facility of Sokolac was visited too. This institution accommodates persons to whom the security measure of psychiatric treatment and confinement to a medical institution was ordered.

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Sarajevo, 8 September 2009

Joint NGO Report for UPR
of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human Rights House of Sarajevo has submitted to OHCHR in Geneva on September 7th 2009, joint NGO Report for UPR of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in behalf of Informal Coalition of Non-governmental Organizations for UPR. The report was supported by more than 30 non-governmental organizations from throughout B&H.

 

 

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The Helsinki Committee is located in the House of Human Rights and is a member of the Network of Houses of Human Rights, together with the Association "Women to Women", the Association "Renaissance" and the Serb Citizens’ Councils – Movement for Equality.