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July 2, 2025, 10:33 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2

"In B&H there is a lack of sex education, too few public kindergartens, high levels of unemployment, and patchy access to contraception" (Para 14).
July 2, 2025, 10:33 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"So, in 2023, my team and I interviewed and surveyed staff at health institutions and health care facilities, as well as 163 people who have had abortions. This research reveals a number of problems with access. For example: Abortion for non-medical reasons is not covered by health insurance and prices vary wildly in different areas; Misoprostol is not registered, so medication abortion is rare; Some clinics have a lack of resources/staff and very few people are offered counselling support (only 3% of those surveyed); Doctors can (and do) refuse to provide abortions, and the rules on ‘conscientious objection’ are not consistent across the different areas of the country. Doctors are...more
July 2, 2025, 10:33 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Abortion is available on request up to 10 weeks of pregnancy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). After 10 weeks it is available with the approval of a committee. However, we recently carried out research which shows that access to abortion services in the country is limited in a number of ways" (Para 1). "The law guarantees that every woman has the right to decide independently whether to terminate her pregnancy up to the tenth week of pregnancy" (Para 6). "Although abortion on request (where there are no medical issues) is legal, it is not covered by health insurance" (Para 11).
June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: AFE-DATA-1

The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is 1.01. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2023, the gross enrollment rate for females is 85% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 84%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ERBG-DATA-1

"Gender based discrimination in labour relations exists in all segments… smaller wage for the same work in comparison to male colleagues" (11).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ATC-DATA-5

"Some progress has been identified in harmonization of the legislation in B&H with the international standards on prevention and combating violence against women in Republika Srpska, which in 2017 adopted new Criminal Code that introduced provisions aimed to harmonize it with the international standards from the CoE Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention)" (7).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: CONST-LAW-1

"During 2017 and 2018 no proposal to amend the BiH Constitution has been sent to parliamentary procedure and the Working Group whose task was to set activities and deadlines to amend the BiH Constitution has never been formed… The BiH Constitution remains discriminatory when it comes to women’s human rights (the Constitution does not contain clear definition of gender equality and discrimination ban of women in public and private sphere, it is written in a gender insensitive language)" (6).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: DV-LAW-1

"In 2018, governmental institutions of Brčko District adopted the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and adopted Protocol on Cooperation and Procedures in Cases of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, aimed to ensure improvements in systemic response on VAW/DV. However, although newly adopted domestic violence law of Brčko District introduces urgent protection measures (a. removal of a perpetrator from an apartment, house, or other common living space, and b. order of restricting approach and communication of perpetrator to a victim) and protection measures (a. removal of a perpetrator from an apartment, house, or other common living space, b. order of restricting approach of perpetrator to a victim, c. prohibition...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: DV-LAW-2

"In 2018, governmental institutions of Brčko District adopted the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and adopted Protocol on Cooperation and Procedures in Cases of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, aimed to ensure improvements in systemic response on VAW/DV. However, although newly adopted domestic violence law of Brčko District introduces urgent protection measures (a. removal of a perpetrator from an apartment, house, or other common living space, and b. order of restricting approach and communication of perpetrator to a victim) and protection measures (a. removal of a perpetrator from an apartment, house, or other common living space, b. order of restricting approach of perpetrator to a victim, c. prohibition...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ERBG-LAW-2

"No safe and confidential system for complaints file with regards to gender based discrimination and sexual harassment was established in BiH" (10).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1

"In an on-line poll nearly a half of women (50,9%) who did not report sexual harassment experience at work place thought they should have taken care of it by themselves; 26,4% were afraid to lose a job, and 24,5% said they were ashamed/embarrassed to report discrimination. Only 10,5% of them told they reported an experience of discrimination to their manager" (10). "Courts are faced with the lack of practice and knowledge of how to estimate the process of proof, i.e. a burden of proof to switch to respondent as the law prescribes. Court proceedings last long and are expensive, and during that time, women continue to endure discrimination, are exposed...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-3

"Gender based discrimination in labour relations exists in all segments: from vacancy notice (when young and good looking female workers are wanted), to a job interview (when women are asked questions related to their marital status, family planning issue, pregnancy, etc.) to the roughest form of discrimination in labour relations – smaller wage for the same work in comparison to male colleagues, layoffs due to pregnancy, sexual harassment, not being able to make a move in career, mobbing. All these mentioned forms of discrimination happen both in public (state institutions and public companies) and private sector" (11).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: INFIB-LAW-1, MARR-LAW-1, FSCB-LAW-1

"New criminal offences related to gender based violence are, as follows: female genital mutilation, forced sterilization, stalking, sexual extortion, and sexual harassment, as well as forced marriage" (7).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: GEW-DATA-1

"While the entity Republika Srpska had traditionally for years rejected compensation claims against the entity by applying statute of limitations to compensation claims filed by victims of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and other forms of torture in civil proceedings, the Supreme Court of Federation of BiH had found in 2011 that no statutes of limitations can be applied to those claims, given that the harm results from the commission of war crimes. After the adoption of decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court in 2014, finding that those claims shall be considered time-barred, however, the Federation court was also forced to change their viewpoint by rejecting all compensation claims filed by...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-2

"While the entity Republika Srpska had traditionally for years rejected compensation claims against the entity by applying statute of limitations to compensation claims filed by victims of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and other forms of torture in civil proceedings, the Supreme Court of Federation of BiH had found in 2011 that no statutes of limitations can be applied to those claims, given that the harm results from the commission of war crimes. After the adoption of decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court in 2014, finding that those claims shall be considered time-barred, however, the Federation court was also forced to change their viewpoint by rejecting all compensation claims filed by...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: IIP-LAW-2

"New criminal offences related to gender based violence are, as follows: female genital mutilation, forced sterilization, stalking, sexual extortion, and sexual harassment, as well as forced marriage. The new RS Criminal Code introduces monetary fine and up to three years of imprisonment for calling, provoking, or inciting violence or hatred directed against an individual or a group because of their national, racial, religious or ethnicity, color of skin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, origin or other characteristics" (7). "[N]ewly adopted domestic violence law of Brčko District introduces urgent protection measures... (a. removal of a perpetrator from an apartment, house, or other common living space, b. order of restricting approach...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: LBHO-DATA-1

"At the level of Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, out of a total of 42 representatives, there are only 9 women (21,4%); at the level of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Federation of BiH, out of a total of 98 representatives, there are only 26 women (26.5%); at the level of the National Assembly of the RS, out of 83 representatives, there are only 17 women (20,5%). The only positive change from the previous period is a higher number of elected women in the cantonal Assemblies of the Federation. In several cantons, including the biggest Sarajevo Canton, almost 40% of the elected were women, which can...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: LBHO-LAW-2

"[T]he Gender Equality Law in BiH... obligates the representation of at least 40% of one of the sexes in all state and other bodies, including political decision-makers" (9).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: LRW-LAW-1

"Some progress has been identified in harmonization of the legislation in B&H with the international standards on prevention and combating violence against women in Republika Srpska, which in 2017 adopted new Criminal Code that introduced provisions aimed to harmonize it with the international standards from the CoE Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) through establishing and managing a special register of persons convicted for criminal offences against sexual integrity of a child, and a new chapter that regulates criminal offences against sexual abuse and exploitation of a child. New criminal offences related to gender based violence are, as follows: female genital mutilation, forced...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"Some progress has been identified in harmonization of the legislation in B&H with the international standards on prevention and combating violence against women in Republika Srpska, which in 2017 adopted new Criminal Code that introduced provisions aimed to harmonize it with the international standards from the CoE Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) through establishing and managing a special register of persons convicted for criminal offences against sexual integrity of a child" (7).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: MARR-LAW-2

"In October 2018, BiH finally recognized the importance of dealing with this issue when the Federal Government accepted the opinion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning the need for legal regulation of same-sex partnerships due to the increased number of requests for recognizing same-sex unions from abroad in the legal system of BiH. The government will form a working group which will be drafting the Law on same-sex partnerships. Sarajevo Open Centre contacted the Ministry of Justice in order to be included in the working group regarding the law, but the formation of the working group is still in process" (13).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"However, it remains an open issue whether this positive development would translate into the women's positioning in the executive government branch, because the practice so far shows that women are very rarely appointed at ministerial and other high-level executive positions. This will only be seen in the coming period, as it is still not close to establishing the executive bodies (on the state level, nor on the entity level, and not even close to resolving the increasingly complex political situation that is in direct connection with the implementation Election results)" (8-9). "[I]n the political bodies that make the most important political decisions in the integration process, decisions on issues that...more
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: NGOFW-PRACTICE-1

"Women and women's CSOs are extremely underrepresented in the 'Mechanism of Coordination', the institutional and operational system established to take forward the EU accession process in BiH" (9).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"A matter of constitutional changes has been entirely marginalized and of civil society organizations, only the Initiative 'Women Citizens for Constitutional Change' actively advocates the change of the BiH Constitution with focus on gender perspective. Except incorporating the clear definition of gender equality and ban of women discrimination, the Initiative calls for incorporating affirmative as well to stop further discrimination and marginalization of women in employment, political decision making, decision on reproductive rights and health and in other fields of life in which women in BiH are, according to available data, in unequal position" (6).
April 3, 2025, 9:02 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1

"'Why would I finance the birth rate?' is a question asked in a TV show by an employer who employs women, of which the pregnant ones 'as soon as they start to bleed they take sick leave and do not work for nine months' . He also said that he was thinking about buying birth control pills for women in the company, otherwise, 'his company will collapse'" (10). "In a TV show ‘Stav’ on Prnjavor TV K3, Marinko Umičević, technical director of Bema Footwear Factory, councilor in the Banja Luka City Assembly, member of the SNSD main committee and RS senator, strongly criticized gynecologist and pregnant female workers" (10).more
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:56 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Bosnia’s women can legally obtain abortion during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, though economic impediments exist in the impoverished, post-war country” (para 20).
Dec. 31, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Croatia, Georgia, Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Philippines, Romania, Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1

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Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, El Salvador, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Panama, South Korea, Suriname, Thailand, Venezuela
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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May 10, 2024, 1:03 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"The third attitude was it is good that man and women are equal in marriage, but by rule it is better than man should have the last word. This is a statement which checks attitudes towards traditionally understood authority in family. According to the data, we can state that majority of men agree with this statement (50.9%), in comparison with women (24.5%). Women show disagreement with this attitude in 54.4% cases, and men in 21.7% cases (Table 3). When it is about this attitude, women show determination in nonacceptance of marriage inequality, while only one fifth of men managed to abandon this attitude. If we take into consideration the answers...more
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, D R Congo, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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