The Office of the High Representative (OHR) is the chief civilian peace implementation agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement designated the High Representative to oversee the implementation of the civilian aspects of the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina on behalf of the International Community.
An independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization for the protection, promotion, and monitoring of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
NewsHour Online and the US State Department
More than four and a half years after the war ended in Bosnia and Hercegovina, many ethnic minorities are still unable to repossess their homes in the Bosnian Serb town of Bijeljina.
PBS documentary featuring eyewitness accounts, an interactive timeline, streaming video clips, original essays, and lesson plans. Visitors will explore the events surrounding and leading up to the July 1995 massacre of over 7,000 Muslim men and boys.
In July 1995 the UN declared "safe area" of Srebrenica in Bosnia was allowed to fall to besieging nationalist Serbs. Over 7,000 men and boys were massacred, and the women of Srebrenica were forcibly evacuated and today live as refugees in their own country. In Tuzla they have formed themselves into a campaigning group "Women of Srebrenica" to fight for justice.
The Human Rights Coordination Centre (HRCC) is an inter-agency centre based within OHR, which has been established to assist in information exchange and coordination (downloadable as pdf file) amongst various agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are working on human rights issues
Established under the Dayton Agreement for an interim period, HRC deals with human rights violations. Includes decisions, the text of Annex 6 to the Dayton Agreement, members of the Chamber, session dates, Rules of Procedure, and statistics. In English and Bosnian.
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