strategy of accusing opponents or critics of helping to organize a coup in 2019. BOSNIA AND Authorities imprisoned the former interim president, Jeanine Áñez, on charges of HERZEGOVINA “terrorism”, “sedition” and “genocide” in proceedings that international observers Bosnia and Herzegovina criticized for lacking due process. Head of state: Rotating presidency − Milorad Dodik, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Željko Komšić, Šefik Džaferović Head of government: Zoran Tegeltija The authorities stigmatized and harassed several human rights defenders, including Many asylum seekers and migrants were Waldo and Franco Albarracín and Amparo living in inhumane conditions. Independent Carvajal, president of the Permanent media and journalists were targeted by Assembly for Human Rights. politicians. Gender-based violence increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS LGBTI people continued to face The findings of the GIEI report emphasized discrimination. Prosecution of war crimes that the violence of the post-election crisis of was further delayed. 2019 had racial and anti-Indigenous BACKGROUND elements to it. Indigenous peoples defending their land and territory were subjected to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) experienced physical attacks, police repression and the most serious political crisis since the end invasions of their land. of the war in 1995. The High RIGHT TO HEALTH Representative’s decision in July to criminalize public denial of genocide By the end of the year, 41% of Bolivia's triggered widespread boycotts of state population had been fully vaccinated against institutions by Republika Srpska’s (RS) Covid-19. Thousands of health workers in leaders, and months of heightened nationalist public institutions went for months without rhetoric. In December, the RS National being paid wages and many worked without Assembly adopted a resolution initiating the proper PPE. process of RS’s withdrawal from BiH state FAILURE TO TACKLE CLIMATE CRISIS institutions, which could lead to the unravelling of the BiH state and risk peace Authorities passed regulations that and stability. incentivized logging and the burning of forests and other vegetation. REFUGEES’ AND MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS WOMEN'S RIGHTS Close to 16,000 people trying to reach EU countries transited BiH in 2021, with According to the Attorney General´s Office, thousands at a time remaining stranded in 108 feminicides were reported in 2021, the country, primarily in Una-Sana Canton. compared to 113 in 2020. Civil society The number of arrivals significantly groups emphasized the need for stronger decreased in the second half of the year. action on policies to prevent violence. Between January and April, around 900 migrants and asylum seekers were living in inhumane conditions and without access to food, water or electricity in Lipa, a temporary camp in Una-Sana Canton, after the authorities failed to agree their relocation to more suitable facilities in other parts of the 1 country. The vice-president of the European Amnesty International Report 2021/22 96