The authorities failed to provide support to thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants stranded in the country. The Constitutional Court declared that movement restrictions imposed on older people and children due to COVID-19 were disproportionate. State of emergency measures further...

Amnesty International is presenting this submission to the European Commission ahead of the preparation of its 2021 Enlargement Package, including the Opinion on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) application for membership in the European Union.

In response to the questionnaire of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on “pushback practices and their impact on the human rights of migrants”, this document provides Amnesty International’s input on select patterns of pushbacks of migrants and refugees in Europe with a focus...

Hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers remain stranded in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) without an end in sight as politicians at all levels failed to agree their relocation to dignified and humane facilities in other parts of the country. For the third week, they remain trapped in the...

Amnesty International presents its responses to the questionnaire on criminalization and prosecution of rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This submission has been prepared in response to the call for contributions issued by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its...

Amnesty International presents its submissions on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as contributions to her thematic report on rape as a grave and...

Thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are currently facing harsh winter conditions in the Greek islands and mainland Greece, and along the Western Balkans route. On International Migrants Day, Amnesty International is calling on the newly installed European Commission to urgently...

This document contains Amnesty International’s suggested recommendations to be made to the twelve States undergoing their UPR during the 34th session of the Universal Periodic Review.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in November 2019. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to BiH in its previous UPR, including in relation to the harmonisation of the constitutional and...

This report sheds light on human rights violations against refugees and migrants along the Western Balkans route, focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. It finds that widespread pushbacks and collective expulsions – often accompanied with violence – and routine denial of access...

Amnesty International is presenting this submission to the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (the Committee) ahead of its examination of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) sixth periodic report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading...

Two decades after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, many of the estimated 20,000 women who had been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence are still battling with the pervasive and devastating consequences of these crimes. This report paints a bleak picture of the...

Ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Committee review of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) third periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Amnesty International has presented a submission to the Committee, highlighting concerns in relation...