SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – A group of women broke Saturday through a police cordon and entered a former warehouse in Bosnia to lay flowers where their loved ones were killed during the 1995 ...
As a young girl, Irena Bjelica had to furtively sneak to football training in defiance of a family who thought she would be better suited as a dancer or model. Today the 24-year-old is a defender for ...
ZENICA, Bosnia, June 6 (Reuters) - Erna Huseinovic fell in love with rugby after coaching young children at a local club in the central town of Zenica, the home of Bosnia's first women's rugby sevens ...
BIRN’s series about women photographers documenting the Bosnian war profiles Isabella Balena, whose pictures captured the impact of the fighting that divided and devastated the picturesque city of ...
In the first of BIRN’s series of interviews with women photojournalists and reporters who covered the Bosnian war, Heidi Rinke-Jarosch recalls refugees from Srebrenica arriving at a refugee camp and a ...
According to Human Rights Watch, gender-based violence and femicide remain serious concerns in Bosnia: "I have been working a lot for the safety of women in Bosnia. We had several domestic violence ...
Today the 24-year-old is a defender for one of Bosnia's top women's football clubs, a team that is winning matches but still trying to win more fans as it battles gender norms in the patriarchical ...