Bosnia Project – Gender Jurisprudence Collections

With support from the U.S. Department of State's Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues, the GJC has recently launched the "Strengthening Victims' Access to Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina" project.
This project supports efforts to achieve justice for victims of conflict-based sexual and gender violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina by creating and maintaining GJC research tools to assist Bosnian justice system actors to successfully prosecute sexual and gender-based crimes that occurred during the region's conflict.
As part of this new initiative, the Gender Jurisprudence Collections is:
• expanding its database to include documents from the European Court of Human Rights relevant to sexual and gender based crimes and related issues;
• adding cases from the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina's War Crimes Section, as well as cantonal and district courts in Bosnia;
• partnering with in-country personnel to collect verdicts from these Bosnian Courts, analyze these verdicts, and code them in our database;
• creating Bosnian language capability on our website for searching the database and reading case documents and other resources;
• summarizing key cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Bosnian courts in case digests available in both Bosnian and English;
• training justice system actors in the use of all of these research tools; and
• providing specialized legal research assistance to justice system actors in Bosnia on the application of international law to cases involving sexual and gender-based crimes.

A Topical Digest of Case Law Related to the Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

With support from the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, the Gender and International Criminal Law Project created a topical digest, focused on the issues most prominently reflected in conflict-related SGV jurisprudence coming out of Bosnian courts, in order to provide local justice system actors with a resource in […]

OSCE Releases Second Report on Combating Impunity for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

OSCE Releases Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has released a detailed report, “Combating Impunity for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Progress and Challenges.” This report is an analysis of criminal proceedings before the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2005 and 2013, highlighting the successes and challenges the Court has […]

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