Sarajevo, November 30, 2023 – As many as 68.8% of BiH citizens do not trust the work of employees in the public administration, and most of them (82.9%) believe that money from the budget is not spent in the right way. The lack of trust was also affected by the fact that more and more...

Numerous representatives of BiH civil society, media, experts and the international community called on the Republic of Srpska authorities to withdraw the draft law on the so-called foreign agents at the conference “Civil Society and Media: Critical Voices under Pressure”, held at the...

Banja Luka, November 9, 2023 – The report of the European Commission showed that Bosnia and Herzegovina did not make any progress in the fight against corruption and the rule of law in the past year. Despite the recommendation for a “conditional green light for negotiations” which...

Sarajevo, October 31, 2023 – Renewed EU interest in the enlargement process for the countries of the Western Balkans should serve as a motivation for accelerating essential reforms, primarily in the field of democratization and strengthening the rule of law, it was said at the “EU...

By adopting the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Law on Amendments to the Law on the HJPC, requesting the extension of the application of the Law after December 23, the members of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) showed that the earlier warnings, which Transparency...

Transparency International BiH, together with representatives of the non-governmental sector and citizens, participated in a gathering at Trg Krajina in Banja Luka to express concern and dissatisfaction with the adoption of the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of the Work of...

Sarajevo – Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of Sweden, announces regional conference “EU Integration Forum”. The conference will be held on October 31, 2023 at Novotel Bristol Sarajevo, starting at 09 a.m. Two decades after the summit in...

Sarajevo – Representatives of Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in a two-day training session “How to proceed: The role of civil society in the negotiation process of BiH for EU membership”. On the first training day, Vladimir Medjak, vice president...

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the Global Summit Initiative Partnership for Open Government (OGP) in Tallinn, organized by the Government of Estonia and the Secretariat of the OGP Initiative. The OGP Global Summit gathers representatives of governments, civil...

Banja Luka, September 19, 2023 – Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) sent comments to all clubs of deputies in the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska on the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of the Work of Non-Profit Organizations, which, at the...

Invitation for Prequalification No.: 001-2023-KDI Project: Integrity Watch in the Western Balkans and Turkey: civil society combating corruption with political integrity data Project Number: IPA/2022/ 440-922 Client: Kosova Democratic Institute (KDI) Country: Kosovo Issued on: 7 August 2023...

Banja Luka, July 26, 2023 – Only one of the 14 priorities from the European Commission’s Opinion on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s application for EU membership has been fully met, namely the one related to the formation of the Parliamentary Committee for Stabilization and Association,...

GENEVA (25 July 2023) – UN human rights experts* expressed alarm about the recent adoption of amendments to the criminal code in the Republika Srpska entity that re-criminalise defamation and risk to adversely impact freedom of expression in Bosnia and Herzegovina and contribute to a climate of...

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted a report to the Disciplinary Prosecutor’s Office against Milanko Kaganić, the Chief prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who assigned the vast majority of cases outside the TCMS automatic...

The United Nations, the OSCE Mission, the Council of Europe and the EU Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina are dismayed that the Republika Srpska National Assembly today re-criminalized defamation. The United Nations, the OSCE Mission, the Council of Europe and the EU Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Sarajevo, July 13, 2023 – The majority of courts do not publish information about judgments and information about prosecution cases are usually far from the public eye, while half of the judicial institutions ignore the inquiries of the media and citizens, these are the results of the...