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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. 14 > July 2010
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News

Sarajevo, 10 March 2011

The Report of Informal NGO Coalition on application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo, 10 March 2011

REPORT
Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Central Level in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Project NGC 0109)

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Sarajevo, 10 March 2011

REPORT ON THE STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
(Analysis for the period January – December 2010)

Annual Report of the BiH Helsinki Committee’s Legal Aid Office
(1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010
)

 

Sarajevo, 19 April 2010

REPORT
on implementation of the project “Civil society and local community” (Fact-finding mission through education)

 

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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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.