Healthcare
Low-grade cuts that many countries won’t import cross borders into BiH and end up on the dinner table.
Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)
14.8.2006
Low-grade cuts that many countries won’t import cross borders into BiH and end up on the dinner table.
Nearly half the food tested in a summer-time analysis by laboratory experts was found to be loaded with bacteria, including varieties that cause cramps, vomiting and diarrhea of food poisoning.
Trade in cattle across the borders of BiH is profitable enough to keep smugglers busy despite fears of disease and a contaminated food supply.
Unwashed hands, dirty counter tops and summer heat can turn food you eat every day into poison and a fractured, under-funded inspection system is not protecting you.
In the Northeast Bosnia villages of Popovi and Amajlije, cattle are smuggled across the nearby border from Serbia two or three times a week, according
The International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia was set up in The Hague in 1993, and a decade later, the state court of Bosnia
Dušanka Mihajlović from Mlječanice shot and wounded her husband in 1992. During yet another of their ongoing arguments, her husband Vlado grabbed her hair and
Branko Dobranić was convicted of sexually abusing teen-age relatives but judges went easy on him in sentencing. Activists say abusers frequently get lenient treatment from police, prosecutors and judges.
New laws are not enough to stop domestic violence. The laws need to be strengthened and police, prosecutors and judges must work harder to enforce them, activists say.
The murder of one unhappy wife at the hands of her husband shows why domestic violence still flourishes. Women, especially if their husbands have money, find little sympathy for their complaints and if they rebel even their own relatives see it as reasonable that they should be punished. Legally, husbands who hurt their wives are dealt with leniently.
For seven years, prosecutors got tips and information from outraged workers and former officials urging them to act against criminal activity within Elektrobosna. Federation financial police found that the complaints had merit. Yet, with the company now in financial collapse, no prosecutor ever went to court in the case.
Bosnian state court authorities say they vindicated former international Judge Gerald Gahima of the War Crimes Chamber of any wrong-doing in his native Rwanda, but they won’t say how they had the authority to decide law in another country or just how they went about making their determination of innocence.
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