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SARAJEVO, June 21 (FENA) - The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina today adopted the Bill on Civilian Victims of War, which will be sent to the parliamentary procedure for second reading in both houses of the FBiH Parliament.
Minister of Labor and Social Policy Adnan Delić said today that after the completion of this procedure, civilian victims of war will have a lex specialis, that is, a law from which civilian victims of war and their family members derive their rights for the first time in three decades since the end of the aggression.
Delić said that the initiative was submitted by Zenica-Doboj Canton.
"The adoption of the Bill at today's session of the Government gives us a wind in our sails that was long awaited in the Ministry. The Bill has been in the process for more than two years and we are glad that we have finally taken a step forward. We hope for the support of both houses of the Parliament because they have already had it read once and adopted it unanimously, so we do not expect the procedure to last longer than it is formally necessary. Our civilian victims are finally on the threshold of achieving their victory, to receive a law that applies exclusively to them, given that until now they have derived their rights from the General Law since 1999, which in the meantime has undergone several changes and thus has become difficult for implementation in practice," said Delić.
He pointed out that the bill is unique in the world because, for the first time, it includes children born as a result of wartime sexual violence, which is finally an institutional break of silence and a clear message to rape victims and their children that they have an interlocutor and a partner who will fight together with them for their dignity, place in society and life without prejudice and stigma.
In addition to the social and reparatory nature, the law provides for the highest categories a legal basis for equalizing opportunities for persons without disabilities, which is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but also provides additional reparation for everything they suffered during war destruction because the state failed to protect them.
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