The case concerns the lack of appropriate medical care given to a detainee, Linar Salakhov, a Ukrainian national, born in 1981, who died in August 2008 from AIDS two weeks after he was released from detention.
“The ambition for the forum is to see what kind of new trends are challenging classical institutions and processes of democratic decision-making and participation and how these developments are changing democratic systems,” says the forum’s coordinator Irena Guidikova.
At the close of his four day visit to the country, the human rights commissioner also recommended that more should be done to ensure the selection, appointment and promotion of judges is based on merit.
At its meeting this week, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ Deputies confirmed that it “deplored that the authorities and political leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina have not achieved yet a consensus to amend the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina despite the repeated calls of the Committee of Ministers and of the international community to that effect.”
Fairness at home, at work and in decision-making and a relentless campaign against violence towards women are the organisation’s key themes marking International Women’s Day.
