BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina News and Events

Two exhibitions on the 1995 genocide first presented in 2025 will reopen together this July at UN headquarters.

Marking the annual genocide commemoration, the Srebrenica Memorial Centre opened an exhibition entitled ‘Facing Srebrenica: Views from the Besieged City’, featuring photographs that show how people lived inside the besieged enclave during wartime.

On July 1, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in partnership with ProPeace Bosnia and Herzegovina, officially presented the “Virtual Memories” application in Sarajevo.

Irvin Pekmez joined BIRN BiH (Detektor.ba) in 2020. Almost six years later, he says, BIRN is ’bigger – and expectations of the editorial team and of me have naturally evolved’.

Agreement on scientific, educational and professional cooperation hailed as marking step forward for joint research and education.

Detektor journalists Irvin Pekmez, Enes Hodzic and Nino Bilajac, as co-authors with the media outlet CU SENS, won second place at the “Superscrieri” journalism awards in Romania in the “TV and Video Journalism” category.

Detektor journalist Emina Dizdarevic Tahmiscija has received a 2025 international Fetisov Journalism Award for a series of articles on transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Detektor journalists Irvin Pekmez, Enes Hodzic, and Nino Bilajac, alongside co-authors from Moldovan outlet CU SENS, have been nominated for a journalism award in Romania in the categories of investigative journalism and TV and video journalism.

From studying international politics to joining BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) in 2014 and her current position of Head of Programmes – and playing basketball to relax – these are some of the moments from Katarina Zrinjski’s everyday life. Let’s meet her!

Bosnian Podrinje canton signs memorandum on using BIRN’s Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia in schools.

A panel discussion in Sarajevo shed light on three decades of transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as panellists reflected on the achievements, shortcomings and steps still needed to ensure justice for the victims of the 1992–95 war.

To help school teachers learn more about how to teach students about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group of teachers from several towns and cities visited detention camps in a former elementary school in Brcko.

Journalists Azra Husaric Omerovic and Lejla Memcic Heric are this year’s recipients of an award for professional reporting given by the Nas Most Association, for a photographic report on Srebrenica mothers who restored their village by their own will and means.

From November 24 to 26, 2025, BIRN welcomed some 120 participants – journalists, civil society activists, tech experts, academia, relevant institutions’ representatives and citizens at large – in Prishtina (Kosovo) for a regional annual conference and the Internet Freedom Meet event on digital rights and freedoms.

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.