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Department for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Department for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities shall receive and register complaints for violations of rights and freedoms and act also ex officio in cases related to violations of rights of disabled persons especially in cases when disabled persons are:

• Jeopardized respect of dignity, personal autonomy including freedom to personal choice and independence;
• Deprived of the rights to equal opportunities and persons with disability exposed to discrimination;
• Prevented to fully and efficiently enroll in to society;

Department for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities monitors harmonization of laws and other regulations in BiH related to protection of rights and interest of persons with invalidity, provisions of the BiH Constitution and international standards related to protection of rights and interests of persons with invalidity and reports to public on violations of the rights of persons with invalidity.

Head of Department/Assistant Ombudsman
Irma Hadžiavdić

Expert Advisor
Zorica Tatić

Expert Advisor
Naida Sahadžić

Expert Advisor
Naida Spužević

Useful Links

• Cooperation with NGO
• Agreements of the Ombudsperson Institution of BiH with other ombudsman institutions
• Freedom of Access to Information
• ​Marrakech Declaration, 12th October 2018
• Operational Strategy of the Institution of Human rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Period 2023 – 2028
• Medium-Term Plan 2025-2027
• Medium-Term Plan 2024-2026
• Ombudsman Manual for handling discrimination cases
• Guidelines for filling in the complaints in the area of discrimination
• Application before European Court of Human Rights - Instruction
• The life of an application before the European Court of Human Rights
• News Archive

We are protecting rights of natural persons and legal entities in accordance with the Constitution of BiH and international human rights instruments...
Ombudsmen of BiH

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Activities Archive

Related documents

• Guidelines for improving everyday communication with people with disabilities, September 2022.
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Concluding observations on the initial report of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 12.04.2017
• Submission to UN Committee on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), September 2016
• Special Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Institutions for Accommodation of Mentally Disabled Persons in B&H