Bosnia & Herzegovina
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 14, 1995 (based on the Dayton agreements); amended several times, last in 2009
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law; the Constitutional Court reviews legislative acts; has not submitted to the jurisdiction of the ICJ
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- Bicameral Parliamentary Assembly (Skupstina) composed of the House of Representatives (Predstavnicki Dom) and the House of Peoples (Dom Naroda)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) (composed of 9 members); Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (composed of 44 national judges and 7 international judges organized into 3 sections: administrative, appellate, and criminal, which includes a Chamber for war crimes); the Federation has 10 cantonal courts plus some municipal courts; the Republika Srpska has a supreme court, 5 district courts, and a number of municipal courts
RELIGIONS
Muslim 50.7%, Orthodox 30.7%, Roman Catholic 15.2%, Atheist 0.8%, Agnostic 0.3%, Other 1.2%, Not declared/No response 1.1% (estimate 2013)
From the country
- JUNE 25, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial
- JUNE 22, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb...
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb Republic, entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina adopted a new criminal code which changed the death penalty to life imprisonment
- APRIL 26, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia-Herzegovina cosponsored the resolution on the...
Bosnia-Herzegovina cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was...
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was charged with the July 1995 slaughter of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a UN-declared demilitarised zone
- JANUARY 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia convicted five ethnic Croats of ethnic cleansing in a 1993 rampage in a Bosnian village which left 116 Muslims dead
- JANUARY 1, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
- APRIL 28, 1999Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution...
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
- JULY 1, 1998Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
In July 1998, the Federation adopted a new criminal...
In July 1998, the Federation adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty