Publications
Enjoyment of Fundamental Freedoms
Publishing date: 9 May 2023
Collections: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Our projects in brief
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Mission supports BiH in efforts aimed at improving and harmonizing laws and practices with international human rights standards in the fields of freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of expression/media, and freedom of religion or belief.
Economic and Social Rights
Publishing date: 9 May 2023
Collections: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Our projects in brief
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Economic activities, Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Working hand-in-hand with government and civil society, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina strives to protect, promote and advance the economic, social, cultural and political rights of all those living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with particular attention given to vulnerable and marginalized groups.
Analysis of Anti-Discrimination Case Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Period 2018-2021
Publishing date: 5 May 2023
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This fact-sheet summarizes the key findings of the analysis of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mission) of 433 domestic court decisions rendered in anti-discrimination cases from mid-2018 to mid-2021.
Ensuring Justice for Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings: Response of the criminal justice system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with recommendations
Publishing date: 27 December 2021
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This is the second public report by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the monitoring of human trafficking and related cases completed before courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After a review of relevant international standards and the national anti-trafficking legal framework, it examines abilities of the national criminal justice system to: effectively prosecute human trafficking and adequately punish those responsible for it; treat victims with dignity while protecting them from harmful consequences of their involvement in criminal proceedings; and facilitate victims’ right to seek compensation from offenders. The report closes with specific recommendations targeted at several key actors. These aim to improve the criminal justice response to human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
PREPARING A WORKSHOP FOR LAW STUDENTS
Publishing date: 27 December 2021
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Youth, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
PREPARING A WORKSHOP FOR LAW STUDENTS: A brief guidebook with case studies for practical exercises in Hate Crimes, War Crimes and Crimes of Trafficking in Human Beings
Hate Monitor Report, November 2021
Publishing date: 22 December 2021
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
It is important to now what is a hate crime. When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined. A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias. Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime
The enjoyment of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in BiH: monitoring observations of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 10 October 2021
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Annex VI of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina envisages the role of the OSCE in monitoring the human rights situation in the country. This provision has served as the basis of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina's (the Mission's) human rights monitoring over the past 25 years.
Report Hate Crimes
Publishing date: 4 March 2021
Collections: Hate crimes related documents and publications
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
It is important to now what is a hate crime. When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined. A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias. Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime
Human Rights in times of COVID-19- Identified omissions in realization of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 17 November 2020
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report is the result of cooperation between the Banja Luka Human Rights Centre and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) and is largely based on the Mission's monitoring with regard to respect for human rights in BiH in times of the pandemic.
COVID-19 Crisis Response: Human Rights And Gender Analysis
Publishing date: 17 November 2020
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
COVID-19 has impacted the lives of each and every one of us. Regardless of where in the world we found ourselves during the outbreak of this virus, limitations on freedom have been implemented that would not have been imagined just months earlier.