BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Željko Komšić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Support developing countries with climate mitigation: Bosnia and Herzegovina

22 September 2021
UN Affairs

Financial support will be critical if developing countries are to meet global climate goals, the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšić, said in the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.  

 

Indicted Bosnian-Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic appears before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Appeals Chamber in The Hague.
UN-IRMCT/Leslie Hondebrink-Hermer

UN court upholds Ratko Mladić convictions and life sentence

8 June 2021
Law and Crime Prevention

A UN court on Tuesday upheld the life sentence imposed on former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić for his role in the Balkan wars in the 1990s. 

 

A migrant at what remains of the Lipa Emergency Tent Camp in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, after it was destroyed in a fire.
IOM 2020/Ervin Causevic

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Migrant lives at ‘immediate risk’, warn UN agencies

28 December 2020
Migrants and Refugees

United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners have called on authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to act urgently to help hundreds of migrants, stranded and without shelter, amid freezing winter temperatures. 

The fire rages at the Lipa emergency camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina that housed about 1,400 migrants.
IOM 2020/Ervin Causevic

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Thousands of migrants lose shelter, after camp destroyed in fire

24 December 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The closure and subsequent fire, on Wednesday, at a migrant camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina has left thousands of migrants without shelter and protection, amid plummeting winter temperatures, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported. 

Šefik Džaferović (on screen), Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

European unity is an example to the world: Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of State

23 September 2020
UN Affairs

Šefik Džaferović, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of State, used his address to the General Debate of the General Assembly on Wednesday to praise the European Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the help it has given to non-EU countries, such as his own.

(FILE PHOTO) Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, briefs the Security Council on the situation in that country.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Corruption, political blockages, threaten international efforts to help Bosnia and Herzegovina weather coronavirus

6 May 2020
Peace and Security

Bosnia and Herzegovina is weathering the COVID-19 outbreak better than some other nations, but there’s a real danger that corruption will undermine global efforts to help it contain the pandemic, the international community’s High Representative to the Western Balkan country told the Security Council on Wednesday.

Wide view of the Security Council Chamber.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe (file)

International community urged to deliver on promise for better future for Bosnia and Herzegovina

5 November 2019
Peace and Security

Current trends and public pronouncements by some political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina indicate an effort to roll back reforms implemented since the end of the Balkan wars two decades ago, the UN Security Council heard on Tuesday.

Valentin Inzko, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, briefs the Security Council on 8 May 2018.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

‘Fabric of society’ at risk in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN Security Council told

8 May 2018
Peace and Security

With elections looming, tensions across Bosnia and Herzegovina are rising alongside inflammatory rhetoric against the country’s long-standing peace agreement, a senior figure monitoring its implementation has warned.

Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Political dynamics in former Yugoslavia region “extremely complicated”

26 October 2015
General News

The political dynamics in the areas that once made up the former Yugoslavia remain “extremely complicated”.

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View of the flooded city of Obrenovac (Serbia), near Belgrade, that was completely evacuated on the second day of crisis. (19 May 2014). Photo
UNCT Serbia

Floods in Balkans disrupt people’s lives

23 May 2014
General News

A clearer picture of the damage caused by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in more than a century, is beginning to emerge as the waters start to recede, according to UN agencies.

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