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.
(more)
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.
