News in English     | 20.03.2018. 15:13 |

Citizens in BiH mainly complain about the length of court proceedings

FENA Dušica Stanojević

BANJA LUKA, March 20 (FENA) - During last year, the majority of citizens’ complaints to the Ombudsman Institution of Bosnia and Herzegovina received referred to the segment of civil and political rights.

“The BiH Ombudsman received 3,160 complaints last year, of which 1,861 referred to civil and political rights,” said Ombudsperson Nives Jukic at the press conference held today, explaining that the most complaints of citizens related to unjustifiable length of judicial and administrative proceedings.

The majority of complaints, she said, related to the delay in rendering first instance rulings, and failure to complete proceedings in appeal cases going on for a number of years and failure to implement final court decisions, especially when they are at the expense of the budgets.

A large number of cases, as Jukić said, referred to the freedom of expression and the right to access information, and 59 recommendations issued in connection to this area.

In 2017, the ombudspersons processed 755 cases in the field of economic, social and cultural rights that mainly dealt with irregularities in the conduct of tender procedures, violation of pension rights, and health and social insurance.

When it comes to discrimination, the Ombudspersons processed 184 cases, and as he said, the Ombudsman recommendations are increasingly being used as evidence material in court proceedings.

The least number of cases dealt with national, religious and other minority rights, where only eight complaints were filed.

In the past year, the Ombudspersons issued 355 recommendations and prepared two special reports on the situation and cases of threats to journalists and the use of official languages ​​and alphabets in BiH.

(FENA) S. R.

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