BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina News and Events

A story about obtaining the right to justice for victims of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of two articles by Detektor journalist Emina Dizdarevic Tahmiscija which have been shortlisted for the Fetisov International Journalism Award for 2025.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, the “Forgotten Children of War” Association, and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre presented a Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War and a handbook, How to Learn ad Teach about the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tool for educating young people, combatting denial and relativization of verdicts, and building peace and mutual understanding.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, presented a database of children still being searched for after the 1992-5 war, as well as a documentary, The Unlived Lives, telling a story of three families whose newborn babies disappeared without a trace.

BIRN BiH director Dzenis Dzidic receives prestigious award for long-standing contribution to investigative journalism and media freedom.  

A documentary about a former detainee from Prijedor whose entire family was killed will premiere at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival on August 18.

This year marks BIRN’s 20th anniversary. From exposing corruption to promoting human rights, BIRN’s investigative journalists collaborate across borders to find out the facts and tell people’s stories.

Aida Trepanic Hebib, a BIRN BiH journalist, has won the “Nino Catic” award for her story about the removal of denial from social media in which she addressed crime minimization and relativization, as well as hate comments, targeting the children of those killed in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

Project that started in 2020 and collected items connected to victims of the 1995 genocide has gained a permanent home.

A screening of the animated doc ‘Fahrudin’, produced by the Srebrenica Memorial Centre and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, took place in Sarajevo.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has signed a deal with the International University of Sarajevo with the aim of mutually enhancing activities and information exchange.

Documentaries, a summer school and a memorial room are part of a collaboration between BIRN and the Srebrenica Memorial Center to mark the anniversary in 2025.

New exhibition of survivors’ testimonies, organised by the Srebrenica Memorial Centre and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina at UN headquarters in New York, is ‘a moral call for humanity to not forget’.

History professor Melisa Foric Plasto and Detektor journalist Haris Rovcanin held a class on the Srebrenica genocide based on materials from the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the war in Bosnia – with the aim of using this knowledge to avoid misinterpretations.

BIRN BiH, Srebrenica Memorial Centre and Forgotten Children of War Association launch joint initiative designed for students and teachers on judicially established facts about the Bosnian war.

A testimony by Srebrenica mother Emina Hajdarevic about the son she lost in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, filmed by Detektor journalist Lamija Grebo, has won first prize at the Remembering through Art online exhibition.