Educating citizens about the sharing of data on the Internet, where gender-based violence, disinformation and other harmful narratives abound, is a necessity, BIRN’s Internet Freedom Meet conference in Skopje heard.
The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’ recent acquittals in Serbia.
Former Security Minister Selmo Cikotic, who was a Bosnian Army officer during the war, was charged with failing to prevent the torture and murders of Croat military prisoners in Bugojno in 1993.
Seven former Bosnian Serb Army officers and soldiers were charged with the capture and killing of 65 Bosniaks in the Sekovici and Vlasenica areas in July 1995 as the victims were fleeing Srebrenica.
Evropska unija je zabrinuta zbog činjenice da je u Narodnoj skupštini Republike Srpske usvojen Nacrt zakona o posebnom registru nevladinih organizacija, izjavio je danas u Banjaluci šef Delegacije EU u BiH Johann Sattler, gdje su brojni predstavnici bh. civilnog društva, medija, stručnjaka i međunarodne zajednice pozvali vlasti u ovom entitetu da povuku sporni nacrt zakona.
Although the number of cyberattacks is increasing daily, almost no information about these attacks is to be found online, according to observations made during a panel discussion on the current state of cyber security in BiH at the Internet Governance Forum held in Sarajevo.
The non-consensual sharing of private content is not punishable by law in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A discussion at the Internet Governance Forum in Sarajevo on preventing gender-based violence, violence against children, and the online dissemination of private content emphasized that the absence of appropriate legal measures and protective systems leaves victims of online violence feeling betrayed.
The absence of legal consequences, minimal accountability from social media platforms, and their reluctance to remove harmful content have made genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals a part of internet pop culture, according to Internet Governance Forum panel discussion in Sarajevo.