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Department for the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Department for the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Institution of Ombudsman for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina receives complaints and ex officio initiates investigations in cases when violations and problems are found in realization of rights originating from the International Pact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the rights from the European Social Chapter, especially when it finds:

• Any kind of discrimination based on race, skin color, gender, language, political or any other opinion, national or social origin, property state, birth or any other circumstance;
• Violation of right to vacation, entertainment, reasonable limitation of work time, periodical paid absence as well as paid holidays;
• Violation of rights that belong to every person related to establishing and membership in trade-unions;
• Violation of right to special protection that employed women have in case of delivery;
• Violation of right to fair conditions of work and right to safe and healthy labor conditions;
• Violation of right to strike;
• Violation of right to use service of social protection;
• Violation of right to education, especially right to primary and secondary education;
• Denying the right to participate in cultural life.

Department for the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Institution of Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH shall inform competent organs and institutions as well as the public regarding economic, social and cultural rights.

Head of Department/Assistant Ombudsman
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Expert Conslutant 
Lejla Sadiković Bajramović

Expert Conslutant
Selma Jahić

Expert Associate
Fatima Aganbegović Fifić

Useful Links

• Office Days of the BiH Ombudsman
• Covid-19 and the human rights effect
• LYRA On-Line Platform for reporting discrimination
• Freedom of Access to Information
• Cooperation with NGO
• ​Marrakech Declaration, 12th October 2018
• Operational Strategy of the Institution of Human rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Period 2016. – 2021.
• Medium-Term Plan 2021-2023
• Annual Financial Report for 2020
• Annual Financial Report for 2019
• Annual Financial Report for 2018
• Annual Financial Report for 2017
• Annual Financial Report for 2016
• Annual Financial Report for 2015
• 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...
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Ombudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur razgovarala sa studentom Fakulteta za političke nauke SSST-u

Ombudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur održala predavanje na Pravnom fakultetu u Zenici

Ombudsmenka dr. Jasminka Džumhur posjetila Centar za smještaj migranata ''Ušivak''

Ombudsmen prof.dr. Ljubinko Mitrović učesnik Kopaoničke škole prirodnog prava

Ombudsman dr. Jasminka Džumhur at the session of the Committee on Economic and Financial Policy of the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament

Ombudsman dr. Jasminka Džumhur held a meeting with a representative of the Council of Europe Office in Sarajevo

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