The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded on 11 February, 1995. It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization. The aim of the Committee is the protection and promotion of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, the Committee is particularly engaged in the following activities:



--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.