News and press releases

SARAJEVO, 21 February 2018 – The presentation of a report compiled by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina titled Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases in BiH: A First Assessment brought together over 100 representatives of the judiciary, law enforcement agencies and the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) today in Sarajevo. The report was developed within the framework of the project Assessing Needs of Judicial Response to Corruption through Monitoring of Criminal Cases and with the support of the United States Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

The establishment of a national body to monitor places of detention in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of efforts to prevent torture and other ill-treatment was the focus of high-level meetings in Sarajevo, supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 5 and 6 February 2018.

More than 30 prosecutors and judges from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) attended a training course on trafficking in human beings (THB), which concluded on 1 February 2018 in Sarajevo. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH, in co-operation with the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of the Federation of BiH.

A two-day training course on media literacy for over 20 students from the Faculties of Philosophy and Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo, organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was held on 16 and 17 December 2017 in Sarajevo...

The annual Security Policy Course, which gathered 30 officials from governmental institutions, police, armed forces, parliaments and representatives of civil society and academia in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), concluded on 14 December 2017 in Sarajevo. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in co-operation with the Council of Ministers’ Inter-Ministerial Working Group for BiH Security Policy Implementation...

SARAJEVO, 12 December 2017- Today we mark international anti-corruption day. Corruption remains one of the main threats to securing a prosperous future for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The citizens of BiH have the basic human right to live in a corruption-free society. Corruption-free public institutions are needed to restore trust, improve governmental services, attract investors and remove barriers to economic development.

SARAJEVO, 12 December 2017- For the first time, the OSCE Head of Mission Bruce G. Berton, United States Ambassador Maureen Cormack, and the Head of European Union Delegation and EU Special Representative Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark jointly addressed the Conference of Education Ministers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) today in Sarajevo...