Bosnia Hertegovina

Despite its huge potentials, Bosnia remains one of the World’s least competitive countries because its politicians hold up the key reforms, perpetuating a political crisis for their own interests, a top international diplomat in the country said.

Osobe s invaliditetom u BiH moraju imati najveći mogući stepen zaštite i osigurana jednaka prava kao i svi ostali građani. UN-ova konvencija o pravima osoba s invaliditetom trebala bi pomoći u uspostavljanju sistema koji će olakšati život pripadnicima ove populacije i zato je njena ratifikacija poželjan i ohrabrujući potez.

Nenad Malić was sentenced on Monday in Belgrade to 13 years in prison for the murder of two Muslim civilians in Bosnia. The charged against his also included the attempted murder of another Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) in Stari Majdan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1992.

The former President of Republika Srpska filed a motion with The Hague Tribunal Monday asking it to annul its decision to appoint Richard Harvey as his defence attorney. Radovan Karadzic asked the Court to allow him to choose an attorney from the list, which meets the norms set by the …

The Hague Tribunal’s Trial Chamber rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion challenging the Tribunal’s legitimacy. “The Trial Chamber would like to point out, once again, that the indictee should better invest his efforts in preparing for the continuation of the trial than submitting motions for ‘moral reasons’, despite the fact that he …

Invalidi, koji već četiri dana protestuju u zgradi parlamenta BiH, prijete da će državne poslanike uzeti za taoce ukoliko danas ne izglasaju odluku o ratifikaciji Konvencije UN-a o pravima osoba sa invaliditetom. Oko 100 invalida od četvrtka odbija napustiti zgradu parlamenta BiH tražeći hitno okončanje procedure ratifikacije konvencije o njihovim …

International Community High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko said that the final offer for a new Bosnian constitution is now on the table.

Nikola Špirić, predsjedavajući Savjeta ministara BiH, zatražio je juče od parlamenta BiH da razriješi dužnosti Safeta Halilovića, ministra za ljudska prava i izbjeglice BiH, jer je “četiri mjeseca kočio proceduru u vezi sa ratifikacijom Konvencije UN-a o pravima lica sa invaliditetom”. “Danas sam od Parlamentarne skupštine BiH zatražio njegovo razrješenje …

SAD i EU neće odustati od podrške domaćim liderima da ispune uslove za pomak BiH ka članstvu u EU i NATO-u, iako preksinoć u pregovorima o reformi Ustava BiH željeni napredak nije postignut. Poručio je to jučer zamjenik američkog državnog sekretara Džejms Stajnberg po okončanju odvojenih sastanaka s liderima sedam …

Radovan Karadzic’s legal adviser says the former Bosnian Serb leader has rejected his court-appointed lawyer and is unlikely to be ready to resume his genocide trial as scheduled on March 1.