Press statement | 18.05.2022 Moving to “Bologna” way of studying should be student-friendly Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina On 21 February 2022, IHROBiH received a complaint from T.R. of Sarajevo, indicating Banja Luka School of Philosophy as the respondent party. The complainant stated that as a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree she passed all her examinations under the “pre-Bologna” programme and the only thing left was to defend her master’s thesis, which was turned in timely. Her thesis entered the official procedure in early 2020, the commission was formed, and everything that needed to be done to have the thesis defended within the statutory deadline had been done. The mentor assigned to the complainant informed her in late 2020 that the deadline for defending master’s theses under the old programme had passed, which meant she had to enrol for the master degree programme again and pay all expenses. Following the investigation procedure, IHROBiH sent a recommendation (P-123/22) to the Commission for Combatting Negative Phenomena in Higher Education in the Republika Srpska of the Ministry for Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society, instructing it to take measures falling within its competence to regulate and protect university students’ rights to adequate information, mentorship and acquisition of professional titles in second cycle studies at Banja Luka University in the most precise and adequate manner, and to take measures to eliminate the irregularities found. Useful Links Cooperation with NGO Office Days of the BiH Ombudsman Agreements of the Ombudsperson Institution of BiH with other ombudsman institutions Covid-19 and the human rights effect 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 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 Ombudsman's ActivitiesOmbudsmenka dr Jasminka Džumhur na prijemu Ambasade Kraljevine Nizozemske u BiHOmbudsmen dr Nevenko Vranješ učesnik Okruglog stola “Pravni problemi u vezi sa ugovorima o (sub)specijalizaciji u oblasti medicine”Ombudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur na predavanju za predstavnike porodica nestalih osoba i organizacija civilnog društva iz UkrajineOmbudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur prisustvovala skupštini Udruženja poslodavaca Federacije Bosne i HercegovineOmbudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur na predstavljanju rezultata istraživanja BH novinara o položaju novinarki i drugih žena u medijimaOmbudsman dr. Nevenko Vranješ na sastanku sa Specijalnim izvjestiocem UN-a za prava na slobodu mirnog okupljanja i udruživanjaActivities Archive Latest publications Special report on underage marriages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 2024Universal periodic review of the state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina - IV Cycle, March 2024Special report on the care of children without parental care with a special focus on the situation in institutions, September 2023Annual Report on results of the activities of the Institution of Human Rights Ombudsman of BiH for 2022