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Press Release: OSCE Head of Mission welcomes the arrest of Radovan Stankovic. Press Release | 23.01.2012 Court of BiH SARAJEVO, 23 January 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton, welcomed today the arrest of Radovan Stankovic, a convicted war criminal and fugitive at large. "I am encouraged that local authorities took the necessary steps that led to his apprehension," said Burton. "It is crucial for stability and reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region that those responsible for crimes against humanity are held accountable and brought to justice.
" "Stankovic's arrest is an important step forward in ensuring that the rule of law is upheld and that justice is seen to be delivered in all parts of BiH. The ICTY transferred criminal proceedings against Stankovic to the BiH Court in 2005, pursuant to the 11bis mechanism, which allowed the transfer of middle and lower level indictees from the ICTY to the national jurisdictions of the countries of the former Yugoslavia for trial. News: New Deputy Head of OSCE Mission to BiH has taken up her duties in Sarajevo. Press Release: OSCE report highlights inadequate and unequal social assistance for vulnerable groups in BiH. Press Release | 29.06.2012 The right to social protection is a basic human right specified in core human rights instruments (V.Pribilovic) SARAJEVO, 29 June 2012 – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s most vulnerable individuals are not receiving adequate and proportional social protection benefits, according to an OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina report launched today.
The report, The Right to Social Protection in BiH, gives a technical overview of the social protection system in BiH, highlighting areas of concern regarding inadequacies and inequalities, particularly from a human rights perspective, and taking into account the international human rights obligations BiH has pledged to respect. The current system is characterized by a dichotomy between privileged categories and non-privileged categories practically creating two parallel systems of benefits, which are being awarded based on beneficiaries’ status rather than on their level of need. Press Release: OSCE Chairperson welcomes agreement on new government in BiH. Press Release | 29.12.2011 The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, speaking at the 20th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Belgrade (Frane Maroevic) VILNIUS, 29 December 2011 - The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today the agreement by Bosnia and Herzegovina's politicians to form a new state government.
"I congratulate the political leaders on their determination to resolve the political stalemate. It is also very positive that the main focus for the new Council of Ministers will be progress on the country's own EU integration agenda," said Ažubalis. "The OSCE, through one of its largest missions, is ready to support the new leadership in fulfilling its reform agenda, especially when it comes to the country's OSCE commitments. Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 2010. Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 3 October 2010 for both the Federal government and the two entities.[1] Voters elected 42 deputies to the State House of Representatives.[2] In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), 98 deputies to its House of Representatives, two representatives (one Bosniak, one Croat) to the tripartite state presidency and ten cantonal assemblies were elected.[2] In Republika Srpska (RS), 83 deputies to its National Assembly, the Serb representative of the tripartite state presidency, one RS president and two RS vice-presidents were elected.[2] There were 39 political parties, 11 coalitions, and 13 independent candidates.[3] Background[edit] After the Bosnian War and the Dayton Accords that ended the war, the constitution set out, in Article V, a tripartite rotational presidency between the Bosniak, Croat and Serb entities.
Candidates[edit] Presidency[edit] Parties[edit] Bosniak Croat Serb Multi-ethnic Campaign[edit] 2010–2012 Bosnia and Herzegovina government formation. Following the election on 3 October 2010, a process of formation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers had begun. The resulting election has produced a fragmented political landscape without a coalition of a parliamentary majority more than a year after the election.
The centralist Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest party in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian Serb autonomist Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, the largest party in the Republika Srpska, each have 8 MPs of the total 42 MPs of the House of Representatives (28 from FB&H and 14 from RS). Similarly, a crisis of government is also present at the local levels, as well as the Federal entity. As of late 2011, the government has been solved, however the country remains in a situation of perpetual political crisis, especially the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Background[edit] Sejdić and Finci v. National census[edit] Local crisis[edit] Issues[edit] See also[edit] Opération-Initiative de sécurité communautaire - Kirghizstan. Centre in Bishkek. Kirghizistan. International | Working to Protect Human Rights. Contexte Les autorités ont reconnu la nécessité d’une enquête indépendante sur les violences qui ont opposé en juin 2010, dans le sud du pays, les communautés kirghize et ouzbèke, et qui ont fait des centaines de morts, des milliers de blessés et des centaines de milliers de personnes déplacées. Elles ont confié cette tâche à deux commissions, l’une nationale, l’autre internationale. Des crimes graves ont été commis aussi bien par des Kirghizes que par des Ouzbeks mais ce sont ces derniers qui ont subi la majorité des dommages matériels et humains. La Commission nationale d’enquête a rendu son rapport en janvier.
Ce document ne se penchait pas sur les atteintes aux droits humains perpétrées, passait sous silence les éléments attestant que des crimes contre l’humanité avaient été commis et se contentait de reprendre le discours officiel, selon lequel les Ouzbeks auraient lancé une attaque coordonnée contre la communauté kirghize, qui aurait riposté de façon spontanée. Top of page Impunité. Kyrgyzstan: Widening Ethnic Divisions in the South. Asia Report N°222 29 Mar 2012 Kyrgyzstan’s government has failed to calm ethnic tensions in the south, which continue to grow since the 2010 violence, largely because of the state’s neglect and southern leaders’ anti-Uzbek policies. Osh, the country’s second city, where more than 420 people died in ethnic clashes in June of that year, remains dominated by its powerful mayor, an ardent Kyrgyz nationalist who has made it clear that he pays little attention to leaders in the capital.
While a superficial quiet has settled on the city, neither the Kyrgyz nor Uzbek community feels it can hold. Uzbeks are subject to illegal detentions and abuse by security forces and have been forced out of public life. The government needs to act to reverse these worsening trends, while donors should insist on improvements in the treatment of the Uzbek minority. Uzbeks are increasingly withdrawing into themselves. The views of southern Kyrgyz have also hardened since the violence. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Kyrgyzstan. UN Rights Commissioner Urges Zhanaozen Probe. Q&A: EU's New Central Asia Envoy Looks To Challenges Ahead. Controversial Osh Mayor's Fate Hinges On Election. A EurasiaNet Partner Post from: The controversial mayor of Osh faces an uncertain future on March 4 as residents vote for a new city council. Mayor Melis Myrzakmatov, whose critics accuse him of doing little to prevent the deadly ethnic clashes in Osh two years ago, will have to resign if his National Unity party fails to win a majority of the council's 45 seats.
The contest, the first since the Osh violence, includes a total of eight parties fielding 706 candidates. The party which wins the most seats automatically fills the mayor's spot. The government in Bishkek, which has long sought to remove Myrzakmatov, is mounting the strongest challenge. Both President Almazbek Atambaev's Social Democrats and Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov's Respublika have been campaigning for months in the city to fight the mayor's well-entrenched political machine. That machine was on display on March 1 when up to 15,000 of Myrzakmatov's supporters rallied. Divided City "He acted as he thought was correct. Kirghizstan: la mafia derrière le conflit entre les Kirghiz aux Ouzbeks. Kirghizstan: l'ex-dictateur serait à l'origine des violences.
Les violences se sont poursuivies lundi dans le sud du Kirghizstan, faisant au moins 124 morts et 1.700 blessés. Les affrontements ont été très violents à Och, la deuxième ville du pays. Des coups de feu ont éclaté, des corps calcinés étaient visibles dans les rues et des maisons ont été incendiées. A Djalalabad, une autre ville près de la frontière ouzbeke, la situation restait aussi tendue. Le clan Bakiev à la manœuvre Les violences interethniques ont éclaté vendredi à Och entre des Kirghiz et la minorité ouzbeke (15 à 20% de la population). >> Le Kirghizstan, un pays rongé par les tensions régionalistes et les intérêts russo-américains Selon David Gaüzere, spécialiste du Kirghizstan, ces violences interethniques sont orchestrées à distance par le richissime clan de l'ex-dictateur Kourmanbek Bakiev, chassé du pouvoir par un soulèvement populaire en avril et réfugié en Biélorussie.
Faustine vincent Mobilisation Lundi, la communauté internationale a commencé à se mobiliser. Pourquoi le sud du Kirghizistan s'embrase. Comment s'est enclenchée la spirale de violence qui a fait au moins une centaine de morts et 1 200 blessés dans le sud du Kirghizistan ? Depuis jeudi soir, de violentes émeutes ont lieu dans les villes du sud du pays. De nombreux témoignages décrivent les expéditions punitives menées par des Kirghizes armés dans les quartiers ouzbeks, où des maisons sont pillées et incendiées. A l'origine des émeutes, une rumeur qui s'est propagée dans la journée de jeudi. "Le prétendu viol d'une femme kirghize par des Ouzbeks a déclenché une bagarre entre de jeunes Kirghizes et Ouzbeks, qui s'est transformée par la suite en émeutes dans la nuit du 10 au 11 juin à Och", explique le politologue Sergueï Massoulov, interrogé par l'AFP. Och est la principale ville du Sud, où vit une importante minorité ouzbèke.
"Ce qui se passe actuellement dans le Sud n'est pas un conflit ethnique", estime M. Kyrgyz Security Forces Implicated in Ethnic Violence. Présentation du Kirghizstan. Kyrgyz parliament approves new coalition government. Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Friday to accept the structure of the new coalition government, which vowed to follow through on reforms designed to build parliamentary democracy in the country. Social Democratic Party leader Almazbek Atambayev, who told the parliament that his government would and put an end to the period of instability and disorder in the country, was appointed prime minister. The coalition government comprises Social Democrats, Ata Zhurt and Respublika, three of the five parties elected to parliament in the October elections.
Atambayev pledged that first of all he would make an official visit to Moscow, which has "provided the greatest support to the republic. " The new government will build good-neighborly relations with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China and Tajikistan, Atambayev said, adding that cooperation with the European Union, United States and Turkey will also be bolstered. MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) Historique ONUCI. < Retour au détail de l'opération ONUCI Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire L'Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) a été créée en vertu de la résolution 1528 votée le 27 février 2004 par le Conseil de sécurité.
L'ONUCI remplace la Mission des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (MINUCI), une mission politique créée en mai 2003 par le Conseil avec comme mandat de faciliter la mise en œuvre par les parties ivoiriennes de l'accord de paix qu'elles ont signé en janvier 2003. Dans la résolution 1721 (2006), le Conseil de sécurité intègre la certification des élections présidentielles au mandat de la mission; une dimension qui est reprise en vue des élections législatives de novembre 2011.
Aux origines des missions française, ouest-africaine et onusienne en Côte d’Ivoire Du 15 au 23 janvier 2003, une table ronde réunissant toutes les forces politiques ivoiriennes est organisée par la France à Linas-Marcoussis, près de Paris. Détérioration de la sécurité et reprise des combats. Côte d'Ivoire : un rapport de l'ONU confirme des exactions de miliciens libériens.
19 mai 2011 – Après avoir déployé une mission d'experts à Dabou, Irobo et Grand Lahou, la Division des droits de l'homme (DDH) de l'Opération des Nations Unies pour la Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) a conclu dans un rapport publié jeudi que des violations flagrantes des droits de l'homme ont été perpétrées par des miliciens et des mercenaires libériens au début du mois de mai alors que les forces loyales au Président Alassane Ouattara prenaient progressivement le contrôle du pays. « Les deux visites de terrain à Dabou, Irobo et Grand Lahou ont permis de confirmer les violations flagrantes des droits de l'homme qui s'y sont produites, notamment des violations du droit à la vie à travers des exécutions sommaires et extrajudiciaires, ainsi que des violations du droit à la propriété, perpétrées par les miliciens et autres mercenaires libériens sur les populations de Dabou, d'Irobo et de Grand Lahou », précise le rapport. :: ONUCI -Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire ::
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