19. March 2021.
BIRN’s unique new database includes court verdicts handed down in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia for domestic terrorism and for going abroad to fight in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
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9. March 2021.
A BIRN research of the working conditions facing journalists in the Balkans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic makes for grim reading.
4. March 2021.
In trying to control the pandemic narrative, governments in the region have turned to draconian tools, muzzling media, arresting critics and bombarding social media giants with requests to take down posts and shut down accounts.
3. March 2021.
Our world looks very different today to how it did a year ago, and no doubt it will look very different again when we eventually emerge from this pandemic. No aspect of our lives will be left unchanged by the events of the year gone by. The Fellowship, however, is still looking for stories that reveal something new about the world – or that reveal the familiar in a new light.
20. May 2020.
The Kosovo government is making a second attempt to set up a War Crimes Research Institute - but experts are sceptical because of the authorities’ two-decade-long failure to properly document wartime atrocities.
15. May 2020.
The Montenegrin parliament will collate statements, indictments and trial judgments related to war crimes in which the country was involved in the 1990s for a Documentation Centre that will be set up at the legislature.
24. April 2020.
Men who were raped or sexually assaulted during the 1992-95 Bosnian war have long been reluctant to speak out for fear of stigmatisation, but now attempts are being made to ensure they get the same welfare benefits as other war victims.
22. April 2020.
<div class="btArticleExcerpt">The evidence suggests rates of domestic abuse are up since states in the Balkans began imposing strict limitations on movement in the fight against COVID-19.</div>
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“Before the quarantine he would insult me, use slurs, tell me I’m a whore, that I’m kissing other men.
2. April 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s blanket bans on certain age groups from going outdoors during the pandemic are not only harsh, arbitrary and discriminatory – but also risk worsening public health outcomes. Emina Cerimovic, Margaret Wurth and Bethany Brown In response to the spread of COVID-19, both entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and […]
23. March 2020.
Many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are self-isolating at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, but migrants and refugees living in squatted buildings and tent camps are more vulnerable to infection because they can’t take the same precautions.
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