OHR related Articles

I am writing to express my deepest condolences in respect of the serious incident last week, in which Father Jeremija Starovlah, and his son Aleksandar, were injured. The International Community takes it extremely seriously when civilians are injured as a result of international action, and I know I speak for others in the International Community [...]

In 2003 the Special Auditor issued a series of indepth reports on the operations of Public Companies listing various instances of fraud, theft and waste that were costing BiH citizens millions of KM. There were cases of straightforward stealing, with a few individuals enriching themselves, and there were even more frequent cases of institutionalise [...]

This week the EC announced its interim assessment of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s efforts to fulfil the Feasibility Study requirements. The assessment is not wholly positive. Unless the pace of reform changes, a golden opportunity for BiH could be slipping away. I believe at least part of the problem may be an inability to understand why reforms ma [...]

This week the Federation Parliament is scheduled to discuss amendments to the Bankruptcy Law. These amendments, which the Federation Government has agreed to, will make the existing Bankruptcy Law work as it was supposed to work, and that means giving companies that get into difficulties a way out of their problems that doesn’t involve closing down [...]

Not long ago I visited Gradacac, a small town in Tuzla Canton. Gradacac was badly damaged during the war and has had to come to terms with the human and physical costs that are a consequence of that. It is situated in a part of the country with economic potential but with few very obvious advantages. Yet, the people of Gradacac have changed their o [...]

At the end of last year we brought all of the organizations responsible for privatizing BiH companies – ministries, privatization agencies, international organizations – together in one room. The idea was to find out what has gone wrong with the privatization programme and seek ways to fix it. We discovered a number of things, some, frankly, outra [...]

BiH’s public broadcasting system needs comprehensive reform if it is to avoid financial collapse and meet the requirements of European integration. But it is rightly now up to BiH’s own institutions to decide how, and indeed whether, to carry out the necessary reforms. Most citizens will probably have been mystified by the passionate and at time [...]

The more that gets said about public broadcasting in this country, the more confusing it seems to become. You, the citizens of this country, could be forgiven for wondering what’s really going on. It’s time to tell the truth about what is really at stake. The public broadcasters are facing financial collapse. And unless they sort themselves o [...]

It’s now more than a month since RS Prime Minister Mikerevic announced the results of the Special Auditor’s report regarding the management of Telekom Srpske. I believe most readers are well aware of what the auditor found – a company run poorly, whose managers were engaged in a series of improprieties. The firm’s own auditor failed to carry out [...]

Alija Izetbegovic, the wartime president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was buried on Wednesday on a hillside overlooking this city. An estimated 150,000 people attended Mr. Izetbegovic's funeral, thronging the center of the Bosnian capital on a cold rainy day. His death marks the end of an era. The crucial question for the people of Bosnia and Herzego [...]