News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
War crimes prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at OSCE meeting in Mostar, discuss cases involving enforced disappearance
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 17 May 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina today hosted a peer-to-peer meeting for cantonal and district war crimes prosecutors on the legal qualification of enforced disappearance and on applying substantive law in less complex war crimes cases...
OSCE supports international conference on obstacles in prosecuting war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 May 2016
SARAJEVO, 14 May 2016 – Challenges in investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as well as potential solutions to these obstacles was the focus of a conference which concluded today in Sarajevo, having brought together more than 40 members of the judiciary, international law experts, government and diplomatic representatives...
OSCE meeting in Teslic emphasizes importance of consistent application of double jeopardy principle in war crimes cases
Publishing date: 27 April 2016
TESLIC, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 27 April 2016 – The consistent application of the double jeopardy principle in war crimes processing is crucial to preventing serious infringements of the constitutional principles of legal certainty and equality before the law, concluded BiH judges and prosecutors at an OSCE-organized peer-to-peer meeting today in Teslic...
Education of future journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina in focus of OSCE-supported workshop
Publishing date: 26 April 2016
JAHORINA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 26 April 2016 – The OSCE Mission to BiH, in co-operation with local NGO Munja Social Innovation Incubator, organized a three-day workshop for journalism students from the Universities of Sarajevo, Mostar and Banja Luka, to familiarize them with the Mission’s work, with particular focus on media freedom, preventing violent extremism and hate- and bias-motivated incidents...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s youth summits challenge stereotypes and promote tolerance to counter violent extremism
Publishing date: 22 April 2016
SARAJEVO, 22 April 2016 – Some 100 high school students, pedagogues and psychologists from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) took part in two youth summits in Teslić and Vogosća this week co-hosted by the OSCE Mission to BiH and the BiH Security Ministry, with the aim of developing school-supported activities to counter and prevent violent extremism from taking ground in educational environments...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina holds series of lectures for law students in Tuzla
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
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...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organizes visit of international community to Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, focusing on education
Publishing date: 11 April 2016
MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 April 2016- Ambassadors and representatives of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council and other colleagues from the international community, led by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), concluded a visit today to the municipalities of Prozor-Rama and Čapljina.