Press releases

Commission for Deciding on Conflict of Interest in a legal vacuum

Press releases ● 10 March 2016

Rejection to determine the specific status of the Commission for Deciding on Conflict of Interest absolutely favours the public officials who have found themselves in potential conflict of interest and questions the purpose of the existence of the law (more…)

Conference “Challenges of the Open Government Partnership Initiative”

Press releases ● 02 March 2016

Sarajevo, February 26, 2016 – Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TIBiH), in cooperation with the coalition of non-governmental organizations in charge of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative, is 25. held a conference on the Challenges of the Open Government Partnership initiative in February.

The conference discussed the current situation, but also proposals for measures for the first action plan of BiH, which are in 2015. active work of civil society organizations, in cooperation with institutions. Representatives of the Agency for Statistics of BiH and the Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office spoke about the challenges that institutions face when publishing data. The experiences of several institutions that, despite numerous challenges, have made progress in the field of proactive transparency through the development of policies and standards of proactive transparency in public administration were also presented. The participants of the conference were especially interested in the lecture of the visiting expert for online communication with the public, Tomislav Korman, who spoke about mechanisms for improving communication with interest groups and citizens with the aim of opening government, with special focus on social networks.

The participants in the conference concluded that the support of the highest structures of government was completely lacking, and that at that level of government there is not enough interest and will to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed by joining the Open Government Partnership. It called on all civil society institutions and organizations, the media and the academic community to contribute and speed up the process of establishing an Advisory Body and ensure greater citizen participation in the planning process.

TI BiH and other organizations will continue to support the OGP initiative and put pressure on decision makers to speed up compliance.

TI BiH is organizing the Roundtable on Employment in Public Administration

Announcements ● 02 March 2016

Transparency International BiH (TI BiH) is organizing the roundtable on ”Employment in Public Administration with Special Emphasizes on the Implementation of Legal Principles”. (more…)

The FBiH Government is obstructing the implementation of the Law on Combating Corruption and Organized Crime

Press releases ● 25 February 2016

The explanation according to which the Law on Combating Corruption and Organized Crime cannot be implemented since there are no specific conditions for it, only proves the fact that fight against corruption is not on the priority list of the current FBiH Government (more…)

Transparency International celebrated 15 years of existence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Press releases ● 24 February 2016

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked its 15th anniversary by giving a reception which took place on 18th February 2016 in Sarajevo. The reception brought together the representatives of the diplomatic corps, institutions at all levels of BiH, members of the organization, civil society, media, as well as a lot of associates and friends of the organization. (more…)

World’s most important side issue is fertile ground for corruption

Press releases ● 24 February 2016

The Global Corruption Report by Transparency International, which is dedicated to sport this year, indicated that sport is prone to massive corruption, through the management of sports organizations, match-fixing, allocation of the organization of sports events, etc.
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TI BiH and the Institutions on the Open Government Partnership

Announcements ● 24 February 2016

– Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH), supported by the Open Society Fund BiH, is organizing a conference entitled Challenges of the Initiative Open Government Partnership in BiH. (more…)

TI BiH is presenting the Global Corruption Report on Sport

Announcements ● 22 February 2016

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) is organizing a presentation for the media at which it will present the Global Corruption Report on Sport. Transparency International periodically publishes the Global Corruption Report, focused on different field every time, while this year, due to numerous scandals and corruption affairs that have shaken the world of sport, the Report is referring to the sport. (more…)

Almost a quarter of citizens were asked for a bribe

Press releases ● 15 February 2016

Results of the research conducted by TIBiH, as well as the work of the Legal Advice Centre, show that the citizens consider corruption to be one of the major problems in BiH society, along with the unemployment, which can be proven by the fact that the citizens address TIBiH mostly for the problem of corruption in the employment procedures (more…)

TI BiH is organizing a presentation of the results of the Legal Advice Centre

Announcements ● 12 February 2016

Transparency International BiH (TI BiH) is organizing a press conference in order to present the results of its Centre for providing free legal assistance to citizens combating corruption in 2015.
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Draft Law on Local Self-Government of the Government of the Republic of Srpska interferes with the independence of municipalities and cities

Press releases ● 09 February 2016

TI BiH considers that the Government as the central executive authority must not excessively interfere with the independent work of local self-government and that the proposed laws need to be improved (more…)

The Draft Law on Combating Corruption, Organized and Most Serious Forms of Economic Crime still enables political persecution

Press releases ● 05 February 2016

Incrimination of political criminal offenses is a characteristic of the totalitarian regimes and as such, it is in direct contradiction to the constitutional system and the European Convention on Human Rights (more…)

Political pressure on the judiciary must stop!

Press releases ● 29 January 2016

Holders of the highest state functions through pressure on the work of the judiciary have shown that political interests are placed above the implementation of the law and directly told the citizens that legal procedures are not the same for everyone (more…)

Corruption Perceptions Index: BiH is constantly deteriorating

Press releases ● 27 January 2016

Based on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index BiH takes 76th place, out of 168 countries, with a score of 38 on the scale from 0 to 100, and it has deteriorated compared to last year, when its score was 39, and it keeps falling on the scale, starting with 2012 when its score was 42.
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Presentation of Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2015

Announcements ● 25 January 2016

Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) is organizing presentation for the media at which it will present results of Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2015. (more…)

Election Law should prevent abuses in the campaign

Press releases ● 22 January 2016

Transparency International BiH urges the Inter-Agency Working Group for the Amendments to the Election Law to use the process of the amendments to the law so to strengthen the mechanisms for protection against the abuse of public funds, functions and institutions aimed at pre-election promotion and vote buying (more…)