BIRN BiH, Author at Detektor

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina has won the prestigious European Press Prize for its reporting on war crimes trials, transitional justice issues and the problems faced by victims of the 1990s conflict.

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching a campaign entitled ‘Forgotten Victims’, aimed at highlighting the victims of war crimes for which no one has yet been convicted under final verdicts. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday begins its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign, which intends to enable victims of unprosecuted war crimes and their families to speak […]

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina was honoured with a special plaque at this year’s Srdjan Aleksic Journalist Award, the Helsinki Parliament of Citizens of Banja Luka, an NGO, announced on Friday.

Two BIRN Bosnia journalists have each been nominated for a series of articles looking at the legacy of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

The Steering Board of the BH Journalists Association has sent a strong letter of protest to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, after its Vice-President on social media likened the work of BIRN BiH to “the Gestapo”.

The Bosniak and Croat victims were selected, transported and executed at Mount Vlasic by Bosnian Serb police, their bodies tossed into a pit.

‘Invisible Child’, a documentary intended to confront the enduring stigmas surrounding children born as a result of rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, premieres next week at the Sarajevo Film Festival. ‘Invisible Child’, a film directed by Muhammed Ibrahim Sisman that includes interviews with the daughters of women raped during the Bosnian war, […]

An exhibition in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia aims to remind people of the stigma and discrimination that children born in the 1992-5 war as a result of rape, or who were fathered by foreigners, still face.

A group of activists are continuing their campaign to put up temporary memorials at places where crimes took place during the 1992-5 war – whether the local authorities like it or not.

A metal horse sculpted 25 years ago was ridden through the streets of Sarajevo on Wednesday on a tram – symbolizing the heroism that people displayed in May 1992 when a city tram was hit by a missile and set on fire at the start of the Bosnian war.

BIRN BiH

BIRN BiH Wins European Press Prize for Justice Reporting

BIRN BiH Launches ‘Forgotten Victims’ Campaign

BIRN Bosnia Given Special Recognition in Journalism Awards

BIRN BiH Journalists Nominated for Fetisov Awards

Bosnia Journalists Condemn HJPC ‘Gestapo’ Slur About BIRN

Survivors, Relatives to Mark Notorious Bosnia Massacre Anniversary

Film to Premiere About Children of Bosnian War Rape Victims

Forgotten Children of Bosnian War Remembered in Srebrenica

Bosnia Activists Mark More Wartime ‘Suffering Sites’

Sculpture Rides Through Bosnian Capital, Recalling Wartime Courage

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