Advocacy

Journalists from Brcko District say that they receive more pieces of information from judicial institutions than before, but they call on the courts to be even more transparent.

The Guidelines for publishing prosecutorial and court decisions on Internet pages should be accepted and respected by all representatives of judicial bodies, because they represent a balance between the right to privacy and the right to access information, participants in a meeting held in Travnik conclude.

A unified practice of giving information related to war crime trials will improve the cooperation between journalists and representatives of judicial institutions, participants at a meeting held in Zenica conclude.

Selma Ucanbarlic, journalist with the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, from Sarajevo, participated at a conference on BiH’s obligations towards women, who survived war rape, sexual abuse and other types of torture, held in Sarajevo on June 12.