Publications

Courts and prosecutors’ offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have been dealing with cases of war crimes since the end of the 1992-1995 war. In 2003, the newly established Court of BiH and BiH Prosecutor’s Office were given jurisdiction over these cases and a significant number of cases – over 100 – have been processed successfully since the institutions became fully operational in 2005.

Trafficking in human beings is a complex problem and a horrific criminal act, often referred to as a modern form of slavery. It violates fundamental human rights and destroys the dignity of survivors long after the exploitation ends.

Since the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina began to engage in education reform issues in 2002, the task of helping to create or rebuild links within and between divided communities has been at the core of its work.

Factsheet on National Minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Factsheet on the Community engagement initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Facts sheet on the Local First Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Factsheet on the work of the OSCE Mission to BiH in combating gender-based violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Factsheet on the work of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in monitoring and support of the development, adoption and implementation of a more effective education legislative framework in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Mission has actively supported primary and secondary school curricular reform since 2002, advocating for educational standards in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to reflect human rights values and contemporary educational approaches common in the OSCE area.

This document is the second, revised edition of the ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, which were first published in 2007. The Guidelines offer a practical toolkit for legislators and practitioners responsible for implementing laws by drawing on good-practice examples from national legislations in European and OSCE participating States and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights to illustrate the various legislative options used to regulate issues pertaining to the freedom of assembly.