OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina holds series of lectures for law students in Tuzla

TUZLA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Tuzla, completed a series of lectures for students today on the work of the judicial and prosecutorial authorities in BiH in the fields of hate crimes, human trafficking, and processing war crimes cases.

Around 300 students attended lectures presented by Court of BiH judge Dragomir Vukoje, Federal Prosecutor Hajrija Hadziomerovic-Muftic, and Brcko District Chief Prosecutor Zekerija Mujkanovic.

“The Mission welcomed with pleasure this initiative to organize lectures on different rule of law issues that fall under our mandate,” noted Ambassador Jonathan Moore, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH. “We are happy to be able to bring experts in criminal law to provide the students with genuine and practical examples.”

Law Faculty Dean Izudin Hasanovic said: “I look forward to future co-operation with the OSCE Mission to BiH and hope that we will be able to sign a memorandum of understanding soon which will allow for the organization on a regular basis of similar lectures, which have proven to be very useful for our students.”

Selma Sacevic, a law student from Tuzla, said: "The OSCE often visits our faculty and always offers new topics and discussions in which students can actively participate. Today’s subject is war crimes processing;.  I think that all criminals, including war criminals, regardless of their ethnicity, should face justice.”

The lectures are part of the outreach component of the OSCE Mission’s rule of law project, which aims at contributing to a better understanding of the justice system and enhancing public trust in the work of institutions in BiH.