1. June 2022.
A US lawmaker proposed a resolution to Congress calling for the rapists who sexually assaulted Kosovo Albanian war survivor Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman to face justice and for Serbia to stop protecting war criminals.
Reparations to Victims of Torture
16. July 2021.
With an overwhelming majority, Croatia's parliament adopted new legislation that will grant welfare benefits to civilian victims of the 1991-95 war.
21. October 2020.
Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.
17. September 2019.
Two people convicted of rape during the Bosnian war have voluntarily paid 15,400 euros in compensation to their victim - the first time that perpetrators of wartime sexual violence have done so in the country.
29. August 2019.
The UN Committee Against Torture has told Bosnia and Herzegovina to publicly apologise and pay compensation to a victim of wartime rape, and to institute reparations to survivors of sexual violence during the 1990s conflict.
7. May 2019.
Thousands of Bosnians who suffered in wartime detention camps still receive no assistance from the authorities because the country’s state-level law on torture victims is being obstructed by an ethnically-based political dispute.
7. January 2019.
Lawyers say they are trying to locate witnesses, and potential suspects, among the thousands of Syrians who have sought refuge in the Netherlands since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
Lawyers in the Netherlands are discussing how to bring cases before Dutch courts seeking damages on behalf of a number of Syrian citizens for pain and suffering caused during the Syrian war, the latest European bid to bring a measure of justice to a conflict that has killed an estimated 500,000 people.
28. May 2018.
The government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity has finalised a proposed law to grant rights to wartime torture victims - but campaigners fear it could discriminate against non-Serbs.
11. December 2017.
Despite some shortcomings, the Hague Tribunal, which closes this month, has identified and prosecuted those responsible for grave crimes and brought some justice to people who suffered, said members of Bosnia’s Association of Victims.
7. November 2017.
Bosnia and Herzegovina should step up the prosecution of wartime crimes and uphold the human rights of all civilian war victims, a new Council of Europe report says.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.