Full Coverage: Bosnia

31.01.2005 The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, accepted to sponsor the international Sarajevo Winter 2005 Festival.

28.01.2005 More than 130 young persons of different profiles from BiH and diasphora have applied to taka part in the project “Model of BiH Council of Ministers. After the applications are examinaed, the best candidates will be enabled to attend three month internship in BiH state-level ministries.

28.01.2005 The Commission for Preparation of Legislation of the B&H Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with the representatives of the World Bank, the Office of the High Representative (OHR), OSCE and the Council of Europe, works on the preparation of the text of a National Law on Higher Education.

27.01.2005 Members of the first contingent of peacekeeping police officers from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) finished their basic training last month and joined the operation of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

25.01.2005 Prijedorska asocijacija za ekonomski razvoj - PREDA završila je provođenje prve etape obuka za učenike završnih razreda srednjih škola, iz oblasti preduzetništva i poslovnog planiranja, koje su dio projekata „Preduzetničke obuke za mlade“, započetih u novembru 2005. godine.

25.01.2005 Srdjan Dizdarevic, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H, said that 2004 was marked by the verbal commitment by B&H authorities to the Euro-Atlantic integrations. On the other hand, Bosnia and Herzegovina visibly lags behind the neighbouring countries.

20.01.2005 The main goal of the festival is to combine the social and cultural engagement on regional and local levels, through the form of short feature films as a specific type of artistic expression.

19.01.2005 There is no country in the world that has received as much international help and assistance as B&H did during and after the war. And yet, the silence about the tragedy of the people of Southeast Asia is disheartening. What happened to the civic decency, askes Zdravko Grebo, University professor.

18.01.2005 This month, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina will be distributing leaflets throughout the country to promote fair employment practices and to increase the awareness of citizens of their employment rights.

14.01.2005 Passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina, you will notice a great number of small towns, such as Kakanj, Vitez, Gorazde, Novi GradÂ… They seem like places that you would avoid even to visit a friend. Bad infrastructure, urban solutions, the decaying facades, shops, the all prevailing grayness is ever present. At the same time, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Brcko and several other bigger cities look great, modernÂ… they look like the rest of the world.

11.01.2005 On January 19, 2005, the Regional Team for Monitoring of War Crimes Trials in Domestic Courts in Belgrade, Zagreb, Banja Luka and Vukovar, will be officially promoted in Sarajevo. The promotion of the Team, together with the presentation of the Guide for Investigation of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes, used by the Hague Tribunal investigators, are just some of the activities of the three NGOs from Sarajevo, Zagreb and Belgrade.

10.01.2005 YCC organized 2 non-formal public discussions about pre-draft of volunteerism law in Banjaluka and Gradiska...

10.01.2005 The premiere of the documentary film "Blind Justice", directed by Aldin Arnautovic and Refik Hodzic, was held last week at the Media Centre Sarajevo. The film was produced with the financial support by the Open Society Fund B&H, as co-production effort of the XY Films Production Company and the Heinrich Boll Foundation.

10.01.2005 Sarajevo based Media Centre created a website for the Research and Documentation Centre IDOC, which will offer the interested parties to find texts and articles published in the daily and periodical press in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The website is already functional and offers a database of over 14,000 articles, and the archives are expanded with approximately 200 new items every day. The project will be officially promoted in March of this year.

05.01.2005 The Youth Communication Centre Banja Luka and the Youth Centre Livno, with the support by the SEE SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centre and the European Commission, organized a meeting in Banja Luka, with the goal to promote the "Mladi" (Youth) programme, as well as the development of the future strategy of its promotion and implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

04.01.2005 Last week, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina established the Commission for Coordination of Youth Issues. Why we believe that the Commission is meaningless and just another cosmetic action directed at the youth? The Government's message to the youth: "Wait for the next New Year someplace else!"

04.01.2005 The B&H Office of the Regional Environmental Centre for SEE and the Sarajevo Regional Development Agency SERDA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that should result in a cooperation in the field of development of the environment and strengthening of regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.