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Improving the culture of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Police Academies
Sarajevo, 13-14 November 2025 — Classrooms in the Police Academies for police cadets and junior inspectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina are ready to welcome back 24 of their lecturers and instructors, after a professional development programme on human rights safeguards. As part of the joint...
Law enforcement staff accredited for human rights training in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A group of 10 law enforcement officers (women and men) was certified to deliver human rights based training in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1-2 December 2022, in Sarajevo. This activity is as part of an internal accreditation scheme developed in close co-operation with the cantonal and entity...
POLICE AND PRISON PROFESSIONALS TRAIN PEERS IN HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS IN A LOCALLY SUSTAINED SCHEME
Eighteen police and prison professionals in various establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina have received their human rights trainer accreditations this week. This accreditation recognises the local professionals skills in designing, developing, implementing and evaluating human rights training...
VC BIH_Radicalization_Intro
The purpose of the project was to support BiH authorities in standardising prisons’ operational procedures with respect to violent and extremist prisoners that are based on lawful exercise of public safety duties, thereby enabling prisoners’ effective and efficient reintegration in the community....
Prison Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the key element in the criminal justice system
The final conference of two complementary projects on the prison reform was held on 3 June 2016 in Sarajevo. The Council of Europe implemented both projects in parallel over the past four years: the Joint EU/CoE Programme “Harmonisation of BiH sanctions policies and practices with European...
Piloting 'Building on Competences for Prison Managers’ development programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina
On 14-18 September 2015, the Council of Europe piloted a personal development programme 'Building on Competences for Prison Managers’ with the participation of governors from six selected prisons (Banja Luka, Bijeljina, Foča, Mostar, Tuzla and Zenica) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 5-day course...
Working Group 3 meeting on prison staff training manual in Zenica
The Working Group tasked with drafting the manual is in the final stage of developing the prison staff training manual with operational procedures on additional competencies for daily work in prisons. The last comments from the international expert will be shared during the next meeting scheduled...
Working Group 4 meeting on treatment programmes for juveniles in Sarajevo
The Working Group tasked with drafting treatment programmes for vulnerable categories of prisoners is in the final stage of drafting the framework treatment programme for imprisoned juveniles, which closely follows the structure of the CM Rec (2008)11 on the European rules for juvenile offenders...
Working Group 1 meeting on community sanctions in Banja Luka
The Working Group tasked with improving implementation of community sanctions and measures continued working on analysing local legislative framework regulating community sanctions, release on parole, suspended sentence with protective supervision, electronic monitoring, exercise of privileges...
Study visit for members of the WG I tasked with developing staffing strategy for the State prison of BiH was organised on 12-13 November to the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia
The visit was organised within the framework of the US/CoE project Enhancing recruitment procedures and training of staff for the State prison of BH. The members of the study visit group, comprising of the representatives of the State and Entities Ministry of Justice, visited Ljubljana, Ig and...
European Prison Rules
