Obala Kulina Bana 7
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Youth and education
The European Law Students' Association (ELSA) in Sarajevo, as an international, independent, non-political, non-profit organization run for and by the students themselves, to unite and to organize students and graduates, who are interested in the academic and personal development as an addition to his studies at the universities. The main mission of the Association is to contribute to legal education, through various forms of non-formal education, introduction to comparative European justice and social systems, the development of mutual understanding among students of law faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to promote social responsibility of law students and young lawyers.
1. Legal Clinic in International and European law on human rights law (legal clinic topics are related to protection of human rights in B&H, world, and mechanism of human rights protection in Europe - more precisely - European Convention of Human Rights and case law of European court for human rights. (Sarajevo, October 2015 - ) 2. Seminar "Transitional justice - a path to the peace" (21 September 2015 - International Day of peace) 3. organizes visits to state institutions - Parliament of B&H, Court of B&H, Constitutional Court of B&H, Central Bank and Presidency of B&H (during whole year) 4. students internships in private companies, state institutions and international organisations (during whole year) 5. trilateral project (including ELSA Sarajevo, ELSA Ljubljana, ELSA Croatia) that consists from: legal research group and academic-educative visits on topic of economic-social rights of LGBT persons in B&H, Croatia, Slovenia (Sarajevo, Ljubljana & zagreb, March 2015 - ) 6. Legal research group on European social charter as part of ELSA International biggest legal project (Sarajevo, November 2014 - April 2016) 7. Advocate of United nations development program "Advocates of Military control" (Sarajevo, November 2015 - ) 8. Seminar "European court for human rights - constitutional court of Europe?" organized with ELSA Osijek (Dubrovnik, 19 - 23 August 2015) 9. Seminar "Feminism and woman's rights" (Sarajevo, 19 June 2015) 10. Legal clinic in international and European law on human rights law (legal clinic topics are related to protection of human rights in B&H, world, and mechanism of human rights protection in Europe - more precisely - European Convention of Human Rights and case law of European court for human rights. (Sarajevo, October 2014 - January 2015)
ELSA Sarajevo has a rich experience when it comes to organization and implementation of multicultural and multinational events and it is willing to share it in order to contribute achievement of Anna Lindh foundation main goals. Its 200 members will actively participate and give its own contribution to the Anna Lindh Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ELSA Sarajevo has a good cooperation with state institutions, Law Faculty and some other nongovernmental organizations which might be used for purpose of Anna Lindh Network in B&H.
ELSA Sarajevo would like to join Anna Lindh Foundation as it share the same goal – bringing people together in order to break down prejudices and stereotypes among peoples and cultures. More precisely, ELSA's focus group are law students. The best tool to do so is a dialogue. Dialogue, communication is essential part of our everyday life if we want to have a society that is multicultural and tolerant; society of mutual understanding. ELSA Sarajevo is using the most effective tool – education as meeting point of every human. Just by getting to know each other we develop mutual understating to others – to those whole are different from us. Finally, as well as Anna Lindh foundation, ELSA Sarajevo by its activities, as are study visits, provides opportunity for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina and rest of Europe to travel and meet Bosnian or other European legal orders and at the same time their cultures. In order to make us more visible and to be closer to achieving our goals we would like to join Anna Lindh foundation.