Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Zvornik municipality, where she still lives. She survived the detention camp,  sexual  harassment,  being  a  refugee.  Together  with  her  husband,  a  disabled  war  veteran,  she  reconstructed  their  house,  which  had  been  burned  to  the  ground,  and  restored  their  family  life.  She  bravely  faced  the  criminals  by  testifying  as  an  unprotected witness before the […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić A lawyer and women’s rights activist from Bijeljina. She is the programme director of the citizen’s association for the education of Roma “Otaharin”. Bojana Jovanović was born in Zenica. Her growing up in a harmonious family was interrupted by the war when she was sixteen years old. Family Jovanović, unburdened by ethnic divisions, decided not to leave Zenica, even after […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić A women’s rights activist, the founder of the organisation “Žena BiH” and of a safe house for women and children victims of domestic violence and human trafficking in Mostar. She is one of seven women candidates in Bosnia and Herzegovina proposed for the Nobel prize in the action “Thousand Women for the Nobel Peace Prize’. Azra’s social activism started during […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Livno.  Danka is a women’s rights activist. She lives and works in Bosansko Grahovo. Danka was the youngest of six children of a typical Catholic family. When the war started in 1992, was finishing high school. Her diploma award ceremony took place in a shelter. Due to the war, they moved to Zagreb, and then […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Novi Travnik. A civic rights and peace activist, she is best known for her engagement in the field of women’s rights and association of women. She is the founder of the women’s association “Most” in Višegrad (1998) and the Foundation for Empowerment of Women (2013), where she is currently also holding the position of the foundation’s director. […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Kotor Varoš municipality, Večići village. She survived the war, years as a refugee, the death of her children and serious family and life troubles. She lives in Banja Luka and demonstrates how one can fight domestic violence. Dudija lived in Večići until 1992. During her marriage, she had six children. Her oldest son got killed by […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born on the territory of Srebrenica municipality. Today, she lives and works in Tuzla.  She survived conflict-related sexual violence,  years  as  a  refugee  and  domestic  violence. She got educated, found a job and became an activist advocating the rights of victims of conflict-related sexual violence.   At the beginning of the war,  Edina  Karić,  who  was  […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Tuzla. She is one of the best-known trade union activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who fought together with other workers in order for the factory “Dita”, where she worked, not to be shut down. Emina Busuladžić remembers her childhood and growing up in a family, where she was the youngest child, by the wise advice of […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She is a women’s rights activist and politician from Modriča. She is one of the rare women who established and led a political party and managed to become an MP after 22 years. She is a founder of a safe house for women and children victims of violence in Modriča and she participated in numerous actions for a better position […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Nova Kasaba. She spent the war in Srebrenica and Lukavac. She is a returnee, a peace activist and entrepreneur in agriculture and poultry farming in Konjević Polje. One of the fights that Ifeta won was the fight for her own identity or the right to attend school, in spite of the views of her traditional family […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić A human rights activist fighting for a better position of Roma and other women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the founder of the Roma women association “Bolja budućnost” from Tuzla and a member of the Roma Council. Indira was born in Jajce, but today she lives in Tuzla. She entered the NGO sector as the secretary of a Roma association in […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Vakuf. Today, she is retired. She used to work as a Bosnian language and literature teacher at a high school in Gornji Vakuf – Uskoplje. She is a peace activist. Jasminka grew up as an only child. After she had graduated from the Department of South Slavic Literature in Sarajevo, Jasminka went back […]