• Bosnia: European Court Halts Syria Deportation
    Feb 7, 2012
    The decision by the European Court of Human Rights on February 7, 2012, to block Bosnia’s deportation of a Syrian terrorism suspect highlights Bosnia’s problematic counterterrorism policy.
  • Bosnia: A Move to End Discrimination
    Nov 2, 2011
    The Bosnian parliament’s move on October 31, 2011, to amend the constitution to allow members of minority groups to run for high public office is a positive step.
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  • Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    In January 2012, a national government was finally formed more than a year after the October 2010 elections. Bosnia failed to meet a November 2011 deadline set by the European Court of Human Rights to reform its discriminatory constitution, which precludes Roma and Jews from running for high office.  Roma are marginalized and subject to widespread discrimination. More than fifteen years after being indicted for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic finally faced trial in The Hague. Terrorism suspects continued to face indefinite detention without trial. 

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bosnia: European Court Halts Syria Deportation
    Feb 7, 2012
    The decision by the European Court of Human Rights on February 7, 2012, to block Bosnia’s deportation of a Syrian terrorism suspect highlights Bosnia’s problematic counterterrorism policy.
  • Bosnia: A Move to End Discrimination
    Nov 2, 2011
    The Bosnian parliament’s move on October 31, 2011, to amend the constitution to allow members of minority groups to run for high public office is a positive step.
  • ICTY: Mladic's Finally in The Hague. Now What?
    Jun 3, 2011
    Justice has finally caught up with Ratko Mladic. The Bosnian Serb warlord, an alleged mastermind of some of the worst crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica genocide, is sitting in the United Nations detention unit in The Hague after nearly 16 years on the run. However, make no mistake: the road ahead will not be easy.
  • ICTY: Q&A on the Case against Ratko Mladic
    May 31, 2011
    With Ratko Mladic now in The Hague, under the rules of procedure for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), he must be brought before the Trial Chamber assigned to his case “without delay” to be formally charged.
  • In Mladic Arrest, a Reminder of How Far International Justice Has Come
    May 30, 2011
    The forthcoming trial in The Hague of the arrested Serb warlord is an occasion to assess the achievements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  • No Safe Haven?
    May 27, 2011
    The arrest of the notorious fugitive Ratko Mladic almost 16 years after his indictment for genocide closes a gaping hole in the otherwise laudable efforts to bring to justice the authors of "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans.
  • Remembering the Horrors of Srebrenica
    May 27, 2011
    The arrest of Ratko Mladic will finally bring justice to victims and survivors of the bloody slaughter of 7,000 men and boys, writes Human Rights Watch's Emma Daly, who covered the conflict as a reporter. She recalls the anguish of victims, savagery of Mladic-and denial of Bosnian Serbs.
  • Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
    May 27, 2011
    Nearly two decades ago, Aryeh Neier helped launch the international criminal court that eventually tried more than 150 suspects-and will soon try alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic. The former head of Human Rights Watch shares how the tribunal was born.
  • Bosnia: Mladic Arrest Ends Reign of Impunity
    May 26, 2011
    The arrest of notorious fugitive Ratko Mladic almost 16 years after his indictment for genocide shows that no one is beyond the reach of the law. Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander, is charged with 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, including the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian men and boys after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War.
  • The Balkans Must Broaden Approach to Human Rights
    Feb 28, 2011
    For many in Europe, the western Balkans still evoke images of the brutal conflicts that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The legacy of those wars continues to shape European Union and US policy toward the region.
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