Full Coverage: Bosnia

27.07.2005 The inclusion of the Old Bridge in Mostar and the Old City on UNESCO’s list of world cultural heritage is a huge achievement for Bosnia and Herzegovina and introduces a brighter future for B&H cultural heritage, concluded the round-table discussion “Mostar – Global Cultural Heritage: Perspectives for the Coming 10 Years”.

25.07.2005 Over the last couple of months, Mladi.info portal of the Youth Information Agency conducted an online poll in which it asked the users how much did they know about the Bologna Process, they key issue of the reform of higher education in Europe.

22.07.2005 The Communal Services Enterprise “Park” will open today its new office building with an Environmental Centre at the recreation and enternatinment park “Pionirska Dolina”, near Sarajevo.

21.07.2005 At its 119th session, the Government of Sarajevo Canton adopted the Draft-Law on Declaring “Vrelo Bosna” (Spring of Bosna River) Natural Monument. The Draft-Law defines the borders of the monument, the category of protection, zoning rules, developmental goals, protective measures, intervention in the protected area, as well as the use of natural resources, management and financing of the area.

21.07.2005 The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H, under its regular monitoring activities, prepared an analysis of the status of asylum seekers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Foreign nationals, asylum seekers in particular, are among the most vulnerable population categories and their rights are violated far more often than the rights of other citizens.

20.07.2005 Despite the fact that the people of Mostar are still living in a city which suffers from a troubled past, they are now searching for a means to communicate with their government officials in the hope of getting their most basic municipal needs met. Mostar is currently adjusting to the Office of the High RepresentativeÂ’s (OHR) decision to impose the unification of the six municipalities into one.

20.07.2005 A petition for the arrest of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who allegedly launched and directed the Srebrenica massacre but still remain at large, was sent to President Bush and other world leaders on July 11, the 10th anniversary of the atrocity. Now, the petition is to be sent to the Bosnian Serb Republic, and the Advocacy Project asks you to sign on and help bring the Srebrenica killers to justice.

19.07.2005 The World Bank Office to B&H congratulated the citizens of Mostar on the decision by the UNESCO Committee on World Heritage to list the Old Bridge and the historical quarters of the city into the list of world monuments of cultural heritage.

19.07.2005 The students of Banja Luka University are revolted by the fact that, one year after the former military barracks “Vrbas” ownership was transferred to the University, the faculties have not moved in nor they know when would it happen. Last week, a delegation visited the Ministry of Education seeking explanations.

18.07.2005

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18.07.2005 The Federal Government has wrapped the news on the signing of a death penalty and execution for the Neretva River with a Slovenian-Austrian group in imported wrapping paper made of lies and trickery. Of course, the execution will be helped by several “traitors” from Sarajevo. The greatest treasure was sold for peanuts.

15.07.2005 “Welcome to B&H” is the name of the promotion campaign initiated by the entity ministries of trade and tourism. The campaign aims at promotion of Bosnian and Herzegovinian tourist capacities to the foreign travelers that transit through B&H on their way to the Adriatic Coast.

13.07.2005 A working meeting of the representatives of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Banja Luka and Prijedor NGOs was held yesterday in Prijedor, under the project to initiate the cooperation of non-governmental organizations and media from Prijedor and Sanski Most.

13.07.2005 Srebrenica, the town that witnessed the massacre of over 7,000 men and boys in 1995, today struggles to survive despite high unemployment and the pervasive lack of faith citizens have in the political process.

12.07.2005 Under the auspices of the joint project of the European Commission and the Council of Europe, titled “Modernization of Managing Capacities of Bosnia and Herzegovina Universities”, a seminar was held in Neum, last weekend, dedicated to the subject “Data Management for Integrated University: Human Resources Development”.

12.07.2005 The burial prayer and the funeral of 610 identified victims from the Srebrenica Massacre of July 1995 marked the end of the Commemoration Ceremony on the 10th Anniversary of the massacre of Srebrenica Bosniaks.

11.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 11 (OneWorld) - Four U.S.-based groups called Monday for the arrest of the alleged leaders of Europe's worst slaughter of civilians since World War II as tens of thousands gathered in Srebrenica to commemorate the 1995 massacre in what once was Yugoslavia.

11.07.2005 Na denesen den, pred tocno deset godini, holandskiot bataljon na UNPROFOR (UN Protection Force), zadolzen za zastita na Srebrenica, vo t.n. 'sigurna zona' na ON, se predade na silite na Armijata na Republika Srpska, predvodeni od Ratko Mladic. Deneska, deset godini podocna, po Ratko Mladic se traga kako po divo zivotno za genocidot sto go izvrsi. Mnogu od masovnite grobnici seuste se neotkrieni, iljadnici otkrieni tela cekaat identifikacija i soodveten pogreb. Zenite od Srebrenica seuste baraat pravda i tocni informacii.

11.07.2005 The 10th Annyversary of the fall of Srebrenica is commemorated today. Ten years later, many aspects of what happenned there in that faithful week in July 2005 remain unclear. The prime suspects are still at large, there are no official records of what went on, the ICTY confirmed the fact that what happened was a clear case of genocide.

11.07.2005 At Potocari, near Srebrenica, a commemorative service will be held today, on the 10th Annyversary of the tragedy in Srebrenica. The burial ceremony will also be held for the remains of 610 men killed in 1995.