On 21 July 2011, at its 141st session, the Government of the Republic of Croatia adopted the National Action Plan for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security and Related Resolutions for the Period 2011-2014, not even a week after the adoption of the National Policy for Gender Equality for the Period 2011-2015 in […]
According to Kathryn Bolkovac's book, the movie Whistleblower was recently filmed, which, she is convinced, will finally draw the attention of the State Department and the UN to the abuses of large entrepreneurial military companies such as DynCorp. She came to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 as a member of the IPTF (International Police Force). After informing superiors and the public about the participation of [...]
Alyne da Silva Pimentel would be alive today, celebrating her 37th birthday, if Brazilian institutions had recognized her fundamental human right. Instead, and simply because she was a poor Afro-Brazilian woman, she had to die in her seventh month of pregnancy because hospitals refused to provide her with basic medical care. She was then twenty-one […]
Dijana Milić has died, or as the author Marina Mlinarević Sopta writes on index.hr, she was murdered at the age of 44. As a prosecutor, she was leading a case in which professors at the Sarajevo Faculty of Law were suspected of having sexual relations with female students and did not want to give up despite numerous pressures. In the end, showing no intention of submitting to threats, she […]
