Memic et al: Trial for Trusina Crimes Begins
08 September 2010 At the beginning of the trial of six indictees charged with crimes against Croats in Trusina, Konjic municipality, the State Prosecution announced it would examine 117 witnesses.
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Karadzic: Threat to Indictee’s Health
08 September 2010 Radovan Karadzic has asked the Hague Tribunal’s Trial Chamber not to implement the timetable according to which hearings would be held five days a week, claiming that the proposed schedule would pose a threat to his health.
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Gasal et al: Witness Again Fails to Appear
08 September 2010 The trial of four indictees charged with crimes committed against Bosnian Croats from Bugojno continued with the presentation of material evidence by the Defence teams for the first and second indictees, as witness Sabahudin Gazic again failed to appear in court.
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Vlastimir Golijan Pleads Guilty to Genocide
08 September 2010 Vlastimir Golijan has pleaded guilty to genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995 and the murder of more than 800 men and boys on Branjevo military farm in Pilica, Zvornik municipality.
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Week ahead: Trials for Trusina and Doboj Crimes Begin
06 September 2010
The trials of seven indictees charged with crimes committed in the Konjic and Doboj area are due to begin before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina next week.
Week ahead: Trials for Trusina and Doboj Crimes Begin
03 September 2010
The trials of seven indictees charged with crimes committed in the Konjic and Doboj area are due to begin before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina next week.
Ninth TV Justice Episode
01 September 2010
In this edition of TV Justice we bring an overview of the most important trials held before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in August.
Radio Justice Marks One Year Anniversary
20 August 2010 Over the past year BIRN BiH has produced and broadcast 50 weekly episodes of the Radio Justice magazine show.
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BIRN BiH Visits Der Erste Stiftung
02 August 2010 BIRN - Justice Report journalist Denis Dzidic visited the offices of the foundation Der Erste Stiftung in Vienna as part of a journalist exchange program which the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is implementing with Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
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BIRN BiH Attends Washington Conference
30 July 2010
BIRN director Anisa Suceska-Vekic was a key panelist at the “Fifteen years later: Forward or backward in the Balkans?” conference held at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC on July 15.
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BIRN Reps Deliver Lecture to Colorado University Students
27 July 2010 Anisa Suceska-Vekic, director of BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Erna Mackic, editor and journalist with BIRN – Justice Report, delivered a lecture to visiting postgraduate students from Colorado University at the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo on July 16 this year.
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Certificates Presented to Local Community Reporters
25 June 2010 On completion of the final training session for local community court reporters, USAID Head of Mission Alan Reed has presented certificates to reporters who have successfully completed the training course.
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BIRN BiH Attends Council of Ministers' Public Consultations
25 June 2010 Denis Dzidic, a BIRN Justice Report journalist, has attended public consultations on "Institutional reform as part of Transitional Justice Strategy preparation in Bosnia and Herzegovina", held in Zenica.
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Education of Local Community Journalists Completed
23 June 2010 The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, with the support of USAID's Programme on Judicial Sector Development, has completed a four-month training course for about 30 journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina reporting on war-crimes trials conducted before cantonal and district courts.
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Going forward by Coming to Terms with Past
31 May 2010
The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in collaboration with USAID’s Judicial Development Programme, continued training of journalists reporting from cantonal and district courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 27 and 28.
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BIRN BiH Directors' Speech on the Fifth Annyversary
28 May 2010
BIRN BIH marked its fifth anniversary on Thursday May 27 and promoted its new publication ‘Time for truth – Review of the work of War Crime Chamber of the Court of BIH ‘.
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BIRN BiH Marks the Fifth Anniversary
28 May 2010 The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the fifth anniversary, and promoted a publication on complete work of the War Crimes Chamber with the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Fifth Anniversary of BIRN BiH
27 May 2010 The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)in Bosnia and Herzegovina marks the fifth anniversary. On that occasion it promotes a publication on complete work of the War Crimes Chamber with the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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State Department Delegation Visits BIRN BiH
13 May 2010 A five-member delegation from the US State Department has visited BIRN BiH, where the delegation was briefed about war-crimes reporting and trials conducted before the State Court.
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BIRN Attends High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council's Workshop
05 May 2010 BIRN Justice Report journalist Aida Alic attends a workshop on "Support for the judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina - strengthening prosecutorial capacities in the criminal judiciary system", held in Sarajevo.
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Reporting from Local Communities
05 May 2010 On April 27 and 28 the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in collaboration with USAID's Judicial Sector Development Programme, continued a training course for journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina reporting on war-crimes trials conducted before cantonal and district courts.
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Training of Journalists from Local Communities Begins
15 April 2010 The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in collaboration with USAID's Judicial Sector Development Programme, has begun a four-month training course for 30 journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina reporting on war-crimes trials conducted before cantonal and district courts.
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TV Justice Doubles its Ratings on State Television
05 April 2010 According to TV ratings data, three months after the TV Justice show was first broadcast, its ratings on Radio and Television Bosnia and Herzegovina, RTVBiH, have doubled.
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BIRN Attends ICMP Meeting
26 March 2010 BIRN Justice Report journalist Merima Husejnovic attended a meeting in Tuzla with representatives of associations of missing persons' families from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons.
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BIRN Journalist Attends Hague Conference
08 March 2010 Dragana Erjavec, a journalist on BIRN Justice Report, has attended a conference on "Assessing the Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" organised at The Hague.
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Apply for Participation in the 1st Round of BIRN’s Balkan Cultural Cooperation Programme
16 February 2010
BIRN – Balkan Investigative Regional Reporting Network is launching a call for ten journalists with strong interest in cultural policy and regional cooperation to participate in new regional project, funded by the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans.
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TV Justice Starts Airing
20 January 2010 Based on the success of our Justice Report and Justice Radio, BIRN BIH has created a regular monthly televised magazine about the country’s fight against the impunity.
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BIRN Marks Five Years of Growth in Bosnia
04 January 2010 New radio and TV shows have enabled us to bring news and analysis of war crimes trials, and of the judicial process in general, to a growing audience.
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Twenty Issues of Radio Justice Magazine
30 December 2009 By the end of 2009 Radio Justice Report had produced and broadcast 20 weekly BIRN Radio Justice reports and more than 750 daily audio reports.
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BIRN - Justice Report Participates in Berlin Conference
09 December 2009 Aida Alic, a BIRN-Justice Report journalist, participated at a conference on the Western Balkans, in Berlin, and at this year's Schwarzkopf Europe Award Ceremony, also in Berlin.
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BIRN - Justice Report cited in Amnesty International Report
01 October 2009 Several articles written by Justice Report journalists have been cited in the latest Amnesty International Report, "Whose Justice? Bosnia and Herzegovina's Women Still Waiting".
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BIRN Conference Featured in Regional Media
08 September 2009 Media throughout the region reported on the conference on "Transparency of Courts and Responsibility of the Media", organized by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in early September.
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BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina Takes Part in Conference in Travnik
07 September 2009
A BIRN - Justice Report journalist was a panelist at a roundtable organized by the OSCE in Travnik and spoke about media responsibility and cooperation with courts, as well as presenting the work of her agency.
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Conference on Court Transparency and Media Responsibility
19 August 2009 The BIRN Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina is organizing a Regional Conference on "Transparency of Courts and Media Responsibility", in Sarajevo from September 1 to September 3, 2009.
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Radio Justice Report Begins on August 14
12 August 2009 Starting this week, ever Friday, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina will broadcast a weekly ten-minute radio magazine programme on war-crimes trials.
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Discussion on Data Privacy Continues
16 July 2010
Members of the Association of Court Reporters, AIS, held a meeting on July 12 this year, at which they discussed the issue of removing the names of indictees and convicts from indictments and verdicts published on official webpages of the State Court and Prosecution.
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New Obstacles
24 June 2010
The Association of Court Reporters, AIS, held a meeting on June 16 at which journalists discussed the removal of indictments from the official web pages of the State Court and its Prosecution.
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Better Cooperation Needed
23 April 2010 The Association of Court Reporters, AIS, held a meeting on April 20, at which participants discussed issues they face in court reporting.
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BIRN BiH Congratulated on New Project
29 December 2009 The Association of Reporters from the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, AIS, held a meeting on December 23 at which the first TV Justice issue was premiered for AIS members.
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Public Outreach Section Letter
28 October 2009
The letter was sent after the AIS meeting in October.
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AIS Reaction to the Court decission
28 October 2009 The Association of State Court Reporters, AIS, held a meeting on October 22 this. AIS representatives agreed to send a reaction to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pertaining to “The regulations on accessing information controlled by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The Oslobodjenje daily representatives gave their consent to the sending of this reaction.
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Decreasing Interest in War-crimes Reporting
03 September 2009
Journalists and editors of public broadcasting services from former-Yugoslavia believe that interest in war-crimes reporting among the general public is decreasing.
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BIRN Regional Conference Begins
01 September 2009
Regional Conference on "Transparency of Courts and Responsibility of the Media" begins in Sarajevo.
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Support for New Projects
05 June 2009 The Association of Court Reporters, AIS, met again on May 25, 2009 to discuss current issues facing court reporters.
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Improving State Court Media Coverage
16 April 2009
The Association of Court Reporters, AIS, held another meeting on April 14 this year, at which participants discussed issues facing journalists reporting trials at the State Court.
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AIS meeting discusses new workshop
15 September 2008 At a regular meeting of the Association of Court Reporters, AIS, held in Sarajevo on September 10, the participants agreed upon the details pertaining to a workshop for AIS members, as well as new meetings with local media and judiciary representatives, to be held in Travnik and Brcko.
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OSCE: Success of War Crimes Processing Endangered
An OSCE report on Witness Protection and Support in War-Crimes Cases says, among other things, that Bosnia and Herzegovina has neither improved the position of victims and witnesses nor has it won their confidence in criminal proceedings and war-crimes cases.
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