BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina News and Events

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.

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.