mar 7, 2014
Domestic violence constitutes one of the most complicated and difficult socio-criminal issues confronted by judiciaries and criminal justice communities the world over, including in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The purpose of the Judicial Benchbook is to improve the...
feb 26, 2014
Publication “Women and Men in BiH” is published by the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina; it includes data from different statistical and other areas, disaggregated by sex. The data present a brief overview of the position of women and men in BH...
feb 25, 2014
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is based on the understanding that violence against women is a form of gender-based violence that is committed against women because they are women. It is the...
feb 25, 2014
The United Nations Security Council, a body responsible for international peace and security, adopted on 31 October 2000 the Resolution 1325 “Women, peace and security”. The Resolution 1325 is the first Security Council Resolution that deals specifically with the...
feb 25, 2014
The Parliamentary Assembly of BiH has adopted the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH, 59/09) which sets a framework for achieving equal rights and possibilities to all persons in BiH and regulates the system of...
