Friday, 30 may 2025.
30 Years After Bosnia’s Tuzla Massacre, A Mother’s Grief Endures
Three decades ago, two-year-old Sandro was among 71 people who were killed when a shell fired from Bosnian Serb Army positions hit a youth gathering in the city of Tuzla....
To Call His Wife in Sarajevo, Mustafa Risked Death Under Fire in Gaza
Palestinian couple Mustafa and Alia Shaheen were about to celebrate their wedding when they were divided by Israel’s Gaza offensive in October 2023. Alia fled to Sarajevo, where they reunited...
Syria Looks to Bosnia’s Experience to Deal with War’s Mass Graves
With 150,000 people listed as missing from Syria’s brutal civil conflict, the new authorities are looking to learn from the International Committee on Missing Persons’ success in locating mass graves...
Missing But Not Forgotten: The Struggle To Find Vanished War Relatives
Thousands of Ukrainian families are searching for their loved ones, but are faced with a lack of information and even scammers trying to rip them off. Even though the search...
Pain, hope and uncertainty are driving unusual ways of Ukrainian families search for missing
Family members of missing Ukrainian soldiers are joining forces to find new ways to find their loved-ones.
Lessons From Bosnia Can Inform Ukraine’s Search for a ‘Just Peace’
Mikhail Savchenko witnessed war crimes three decades ago in Bosnia, and again in his native Ukraine. In seeking justice for Russian forces’ violations, rights experts say Ukraine must avoid Bosnia’s...
Ukraine Fights Legal Nihilism with Transitional Justice Training
Amid Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the issue of restoring justice has gained particular importance. Since late 2022, when Ukraine liberated the territories of the Kharkiv and Kherson, the country...
At Kosovo Demining School, Ukrainians Gain Vital Skills to Save Lives at Home
Increasing numbers of Ukrainians are learning demining techniques at a training school in Kosovo – hoping to make a difference back in their war-ravaged home country, which has been massively...
Bosnia Should Probe Russian Sanctions-Busting: Ukrainian Official
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser for sanctions told BIRN that the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina should do more to tackle Russian-linked schemes intended to dodge Western-imposed sanctions against Moscow.