Gender-based Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
Gender-based Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

Summary/Abstract: In Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cases of domestic violence are still prosecuted as misdemeanors, while the District's Criminal Code is not harmonized with the Istanbul Convention. The FB&H Draft Law on Protection Against Domestic Violence was supposed to be considered at the session of the FB&H Parliament House of Peoples, but it was withdrawn from the agenda. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is working on the harmonization of the Criminal Code with the Istanbul Convention. What is new compared to the previous reporting period is that the working group for creating the preliminary Draft Law on Amendments to the FB&H Criminal Code initiated its work at the beginning of 2021 and finished in January 2022. The working group harmonized the FB&H Criminal Code with the Istanbul and Lanzarote Conventions. By the end of March, FB&H Government adopted the Draft Law and sent it to the parliamentary procedure without an impact assessment and public consultation with interested parties, that is, nongovernmental organizations and experts.

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