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.
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”.
‘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.
Former detainees of the infamous Bosnian Serb-run death and detention camp near Prijedor intend to mark the 27th anniversary of its closure by erecting a plaque – despite not getting official permission to do so.
Former detainees who were imprisoned by Bosnian Croat forces in a hospital for bone diseases in the town of Stolac will hold a commemoration for those who were tortured and died at the wartime detention facility.