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The Hungarian parliament passed a complex constitutional amendment on Monday evening, which – among other measures – ends the current president’s mandate in a single sentence: “On the day following the entry into force of this constitutional amendment, the mandate of the President shall terminate.”...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo said on Wednesday that “structural and operational shortcomings” continue to undermine the efficiency, consistency, and perceived fairness of war crime proceedings in Kosovo courts and that delays and procedural uncertainty risk affecting the rights of the accused, the...

More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari, retracing part of the route taken by thousands of Bosniak men and boys who fled the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July...

There have been angry reactions in Kosovo after the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday said the verdict in the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi will not be delivered...

Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring scores more in what Moscow said was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities that have caused severe fuel shortages and put pressure on President...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday has launched its new “Virtual Memories” app that allows users to access virtual memorials at locations of war crimes in Bosnia that have never been officially marked. It includes narratives based on court-established facts, video testimonies of survivors and...

President Zoran Milanovic has stripped Branimir Glavas, a retired military general and politician, of his state decorations, according to a decision published on Wednesday in Croatia’s Official Gazette. The decorations were revoked following a ruling by the High Criminal Court of Croatia, which made...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday authorizing new steps to ensure that perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers face justice. Nearly 1,100 peacekeepers from countries around the world have lost their lives in the line of duty, and thousands of others have been...

A new report published on Monday says denial of the war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars is routinely used by those in power in Serbia to discredit opponents, civil society organizations, and independent media, particularly during periods of political tension and public dissent. The report...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar has launched a wide-ranging reform drive aimed at pulling the state out of the captivity into which it was forced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Magyar announced a raft of economic, political, and legal measures...