Full Coverage: Bosnia

29.12.2004 The Centre for Development, Education and Business - HUMANITAS from Doboj completed the filming of its environmental documentary “For a Cleaner Road to the EU”.

29.12.2004 Centar za Razvoj, edukaciju i poslovanje “Humanitas” iz Doboja je u sklopu svojih aktivnosti, završio sa snimanjem dokumentarnog Eko- filma pod nazivom “Za čistiji put ka Evropskoj Uniji”.
Dokumentarni Eko-film će biti prikazan na svim tv stanicama u BiH koje iskažu svoje interesovanje, a sve u cilju buđenja ekološke svijesti građana i u kontekstu očuvanja i održivog korišcenja prirodnih resursa.

29.12.2004 H.E. Mr. Robert Bosscher, Ambassador of the Netherlands and Mr. Jens Toyberg-Frandzen , UNDP Resident Representative, announced the financial contribution from the Netherlands to the UNDPÂ’s Srebrenica Regional Recovery Programme totaling 4 million Euro for recovery of the Srebrenica Region. The funds will be used for economic development, public infrastructure and house reconstruction and for improvement of public services.

28.12.2004 Leading municipal adminstrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with governmental and nongovernmental organizations that achived significant results in the development of local administration, formed the PartnersÂ’ Group for Development of Local Government in B&H at the meeting they held in Banja Luka, December 22.

26.12.2004 With the goal to identify, research and react to the current issues of women existence here and today, the 'Women and Society' Centre organized a forum at the Media Centre Sarajevo.

24.12.2004 Taxi Service for the disabled persons was launched in Banja Luka yesterday. The taxi service has onle mini-van vehicle available to the disabled persons in need of transportation.

23.12.2004 The head of the Mostar field office of the Children Rights Department, Stjepan Prskalo, discussed the reasons behind the decision of the Ombudsman of BH Federation to close the Department, at the press conference held yesterday in Mostar.

22.12.2004 Trafficking in human beings is a contemporary form of slavery. The victims of trafficking are usually talked into leaving home, with promises of well-paid jobs abroad. They soon find themselves doing jobs that they would never think of accepting, and are often forced into prostitution.

20.12.2004 'Bread of Life' is a non-governmental organization established in 1992 in Belgrade. It started its activities in Prijedor in 1996, and focused its work in the years immediately after the end of the war on providing assistance to refugee and IDP population.

20.12.2004 Nedostatokot na licni dokumenti, kako izvod od maticna kniga na rodeni, licna karta ili drzavjanstvo, e edna od osnovnite pricini za isklucuvanje na romskoto naselenie od socijalnite i opstestveni tekovi.

20.12.2004 The lack of personal identification papers, such as birth crtificates, ID cards or residence permits, adds to the exclusion of Roma from society.

19.12.2004 Several days ago, the Coalition for Protection of Vrbas River held a press conference at the International Press Centre in Banja Luka. At the press conference, they discussed the harmful influence of the construction of high dams on the river.

16.12.2004 Recently, journalists reporting from the BiH Parliamentary Assembly (PA) gathered and established an association called the Press Gallery of the BiH PA. Although there are already a few journalistsÂ’ associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, these are still completely disorganized. This is why we decided to use the support of the OSCE Parliamentary Support Programme to establish the Parliamentary Press Gallery as a focal point around which political journalists from our country could gather.

16.12.2004 According to official estimates, every one in four citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina is poor. The B&H Development Strategy states the approximately 20 percent of the population in the country lives under the general poverty line. Thirty percent of the population is just above the poverty line, with possibility to fall under.

15.12.2004 The conscientious objection to the obligatory military service is one of the basic human rights and it gives the right to the individuals to choose, because of religious, moral, ethical and philosophical reasons, to serve in a civilian public service instead of serving in the military.

14.12.2004 Transparency International B&H received reports of a great number of "possible" corruption cases in higher education, on its phone-line 0800-55555.

14.12.2004 “Devetnaesetgodisnata devojka od Romanija, sto vo tekstov ke ja vikame Arijana, mu veruvala na svojot sosed, koj i vetil siguren ilegalen premin preku granica i rabota vo Italija. Po preminuvanjeto na romanskata granica, nesvesna za toa sto i se slucuva, Arijana se nasla vo sobiren centar vo Belgrad, poln so mladi devojki kako nea. Spored kazuvanjata na Arijana, vo centarot bila fotografirana gola. Fotografiite bile objaveni vo “katalog”. Podocna, Arijana otkrila deka ova e standardna procedura dokolku nejzinite sopstvenici resat da ja prodadat. Po dva dena od pristignuvanjeto vo Belgrad, Arijana bila ilegalno prenesena vo Bosna i Hercegovina, vo “pazarot” Arizona, vo blizina na Brcko. Tamu bila prodadena na nopstvenik na noken klub od Teslic” objasnuva Mara Radovanovic, pretsedatel na nevladinata organizacija “Lara” od Bjelina. Vo Bjelina se naoga eden od poveketo shelter centri vo Bosna i Hercegovina, za pomos na zrtvi od trgovija so luge.

14.12.2004 "A 19-year old girl from Romania, we will call her Arijana, trusted her neighbor to help her cross the border and find a job in Italy. After crossing the Romanian border, unaware of what was going on; she ended up in a collection center in Belgrade, full of young girls, just like herself. According to Arijana's testimony, she was photographed without clothes. The photographs were posted, along with those of the others, in a catalogue. Later she would discover that this was necessary so her owners at the time could sell her on. Two days later, she was illegally transported to Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the Arizona market nearby Brcko, where she was bought by a night-bar owner from Teslic", so explained Mara Radovanovic, president of the non-governmental organization "Lara" based in Bijeljina where one of the shelters for victims of trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina is located.

13.12.2004 At the final day of the Conference on the development of internal control mechanisms, Reinhald Danneleit, Director of the OSCE Mission Public Administration Reform Department, presented a Draft Internal Control Rulebook for municipalities.

11.12.2004 “The situation with human rights in these parts is appalling. The really sad thing is that human rights are discussed and mentioned only on December 10, the International Human Rights Day. It would be better if we talked about human right every day, for they are violated on daily basis,” said Branka Kolar, the Ombudsperson of the Republic of Srpska for OneWorld SEE.