- promotion
of human rights;
- systematic
follow-up of the state of human
rights in BiH;
- reacting
against violation of human
rights;
- providing
professional legal assistance to
citizens whose rights have been
endangered;
- giving
suggestions and proposals to
legislative bodies in order to
make the new and existing laws
comply with international
standards in the field of human
rights;
- publishing
of regular and periodical reports
and written documents relating to
human rights;
- presentation
of human rights’ issues through
media;
- organizing
public debates on human rights’
issues;
- gaining
insight into and publishing
reports on the position of ethnic
and religious minorities, state
of prisons, functioning of
legislative power and police
forces;
- monitoring
in the field of information,
freedom of expression and freedom
of media as well as systematic
detection of the language of
hatred in the media in BiH;
- promotion
of contacts and cooperation with
kindred world organizations,
particularly with National
Helsinki Committees and
International Helsinki Federation
and involvement of Helsinki
Committee in activities relating
to protection of human rights
outside BiH.
Through
organizing the seminars and round-tables,
the Committee is trying to make wider
known the viewpoints of the international
authorities, the UN organizations, OSCE,
the Council of Europe, NGOs, - and their
respective roles in protection and
promotion of human rights. As part of its
regular activities, the Committee is
making reports on the situation regarding
human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In
cooperation with legal advisors, the
Committee particularly deals with the
cases of people who feel that their
rights have been endangered and who
address the Committee with such claims.
The
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
BiH was admitted to membership of the
International Helsinki Federation during
its regular annual assembly held in
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, as of
17 November, 1996.
Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights in BiH is one
of the winners of the Special Award for
Human Rights “Liberté - Egalité -
Fraternité ” of
the Republic of France for 1996, awarded
personally by the President of the
Republic of France Jacques Chirac.
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