Full Coverage: Bosnia

27.02.2007 After the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Serbia can not be held responsible for the genocide that took place in B&H, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights demands from state officials to present all the facts as determined by the judgment and to not bring into question the victims of genocide.

21.02.2007 The history of the emergence and development of the so-called “third sector”, i.e. the mass appearance of non-governmental organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as promoters and carries of civil society values, makes for a rather short story. Before the 1992-1995 war, there were the social organizations that acted under the auspices of the state, primarily in the areas of sports and culture, while NGOs as we know them today developed in the second half of the 1990s.

12.02.2007 The CURE Foundation finds the February 8 reaction by Emir Malicevic, the Director of Travnik Municipality Cultural Centre, to deny the request by Alter Art association to use its facilities for a concert by Rijeka rock-bank “LET3”.

09.02.2007 The ALFA Centre NGO from Niksic, Montenegro, expressed its interest to cooperate with organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina that share same or similar orientation and goals.

07.02.2007 The President of the Eko Opstanak (Eco Survival) environmental organization, Miodrag Petrovic, confimed today that the construction of the “ethno village” will start in the first half of 2007, in Grabovacka Rijeka, near Kotor Varos.

06.02.2007 The fourth annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) has opened its submissions process and invites entries from filmmakers. Final submissions deadline is March 31, 2007. The committee will consider feature films, short films, documentary films, documentary short films and animated films by Bosnian-Herzegovinian filmmakers as well as films that have Bosnia and Herzegovina as their theme.