BIRN BiH, Author at Detektor

After five years, the Internet Governance Forum is being held again in Bosnia – and, below, you can help select the topics to be discussed by experts in cyber-security and citizens’ rights, representatives of academic community and the media.

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BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina invites journalists, NGO representatives and activists from across Bosnia to apply for a three-day training program addressing topics and cross-cutting issues related to digital rights and freedoms violations in the Balkans.

A debate about online freedom of expression entitled ‘New Trends or a Method of Suppressing Independent Journalism?’ was held in Sarajevo on November 12 by the Center for Investigative Journalism and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Were there any cases in which children and young teenagers were the targets of bullying, identity theft, privacy issues on TikTok? What steps did you take to protect them? Tell us your story.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has begun to create an interactive educational database of judicially established facts about the 1992-5 war with the aim of confronting revisionist narratives and war crimes denial.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has repeated its demand for Serbia to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to stand trial for contempt of the UN court.

Azra Husaric, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has received UNICEF’s award for contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the “Internet Work” category for her story on the challenges facing children with developmental difficulties and their parents in online classes during the current pandemic.

BIRN is supporting the development of educational material about war crime trials, focusing on cases from the Hague Tribunal, to help build awareness among young people and challenge the continuing political manipulation of wartime history.

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The memorial centre in Srebrenica and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina have set out to film 100 testimonies of surviving witnesses of the 1995 genocide to create an oral history which will become part of a permanent exhibition.

RSF Austria on Thursday awarded BIRN its prestigious Press Freedom Award – A Signal for Europe – which BIRN’s regional director, Marija Ristic, described as an honour and encouragement.

BIRN BiH

Internet Governance Forum to Be Held in Bosnia Again

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Requests to Remove Online Content ‘Mustn’t Fuel Censorship’, Debate Told

Share Your Experience: Children and Youth Safety on TikTok

BIRN BiH to Build Database of Judicially Established Facts About Bosnia War

UN Court Urges Serbia to Send Wanted Nationalists to Hague

UNICEF Awards BIRN BiH Journalist for Contribution to Children’s Rights

BIRN Sponsors Development of War Crime Trial Educational Material

Srebrenica Memorial Centre and BIRN Launch Genocide Testimony Project

BIRN Wins Austria’s Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Award

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