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BOSNIA
AND HERZEGOVINA
Example of Gender Report Component:
7.2 Gender Discrimination and
Violence Against Women
100.
Violence against women is a pervasive human rights concern in all Council of
Europe member states, and this is also the case in BiH. The situation of
victims of sexual violence in the 1992-1995 conflict, most of whom were women,
remains to be adequately addressed. This failure continues to disadvantage
large numbers of women, many of whom are female heads of households and
internally displaced persons. The Commissioner regrets that their specific type
of suffering was only very lately recognised in the legal frameworks for
civilian war victims and not at all at the State level.52
Furthermore, there is no coherent strategy nor adequate financial allocations
in place to support these women, although these measures are included as
priority activities under the Project on Gender Action Plan implementation
developed by the Gender Equality Agency.
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CommDH(2008)1
Original version
REPORT BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
MR THOMAS HAMMARBERG
ON HIS VISIT TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
4 - 11 June 2007
For the attention of the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly
Table of contents
I. Introduction
II. National system for human rights
protection
2.1 Status of international human
rights standards
2.2 Institutional framework for the
protection of human right
III. The role of the international
community
3.1 International involvement in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3.2 The Council of Europe
IV. Specific human rights issues -
focus on vulnerable persons and groups
4.1 Poverty and social exclusion
V. Displacement and returns
5.1 The scope of displacement and
progress made
5.2 Situation of internally
displaced persons and returnees
VI. The protection of national
minorities
6.1. Legal framework for the
protection of national minorities
6.2. The situation of Roma minority
VII. Prevention of discrimination
7.1 Legal framework
7.2 Gender discrimination and
violence against women
7.3 Discrimination of LGBT persons
VIII. The rights of children
8.1 Legal framework and national
action plan
8.2 Child poverty and right to
social security
8.3 Children separated from their
parents
8.4 Corporal Punishment
8.5 Juvenile justice
8.6 The right to education
IX. Treatment of asylum-seekers,
refugees and foreigners
9.1 Asylum and temporary protection
of refugees
9.2 Reviews of citizenships granted
to foreign nationals since 6 April 1992
X. Summary of recommendations
APPENDIX:
PROGRAMME OF THE VISIT
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