High school students from the Meša Selimović Gymnasium in the town of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, today welcomed the return of Outreach representative Almir Alić, who had been asked back for a follow-up presentation, following a very succesful visit last year. On this occasion, Almir gave a more specialised presentation about the work of the Tribunal, focussing on crimes of wartime sexual violence. As on his previous...
The very high level of interest generated among students at Sarajevo’s Second Gymnasium by a presentation on the work of the Tribunal given to them in February this year, prompted them to ask Outreach representative Almir Alić to return to the school and speak to them again. This time Almir spoke to his young audience about the Tribunal’s experiences with specific relation to the prosecution of crimes of wartime sexual violence...
Around 250 students from four law faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina attended presentations given by Aleksandar Kontić, a legal advisor with the Office of the Prosecutor. Some 50 students from the law faculties of the Džemal Bijedić University and the University of Mostar attended Aleksandar’s presentation on 8 May – this event being quite unusual, in that it brought together students from across the ethnic divide which has persisted...
The ICTY Registry Liaison Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Almir Alić, today handed over a generous donation of publications produced over the past 20 years of the Tribunal’s work to representatives of the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo. The Institute has a rich collection of original documents and reproductions from different periods in the history of BiH and neighbouring countries, serving as a valuable source of information...
Morgiana Brading and Goran Georgijev from the Tribunal’s Outreach Programme today visited the high school in Croatia’s easternmost town, Ilok, where they introduced the work and achievements of the ICTY to a group of around 30 students. The students were largely unfamiliar with the work of the Tribunal. One pupil said: “Listening to this presentation made me realise just how much I didn’t know about the Balkan conflicts, the crimes...
