For the legal order, it is very important to make changes to legal regulations and harmonization with international standards, especially FBiH, is quite late, not only with the legislation with the Istanbul Convention, but also with other conventions that regulate children’s rights issues. This is “Avaz” Jasminka Džumhur, ombudsmen of BiH.
Unsolicited contacts
Recall, the FBiH has entered the criminal law, which Femicid II is a difficult murder of women singled out as a particularly criminal offense, and crimes such as stalking and mental violence were introduced. A member of the Law, which was withdrawn from the proposal of the FBiH Criminal Code, which was recognized by the media community as an attempt to restrict media freedoms, but the abuse of recordings and the use of internet and social networks in the commitment of crimes.
Thus, whoever misuse the relationship and without the consent of the film is made available with the consent of that person for personal use, and to imprison the Internet, or otherwise available to a higher person, a prison for six months to five years.
The Criminal Code now recognizes and attempts to establish unwanted contacts, and even through an information-communication technology, when such attempts will be punished by imprisonment by a person, towards a person especially vulnerable for heavier physical or mental disorder, the perpetrator will be punished I prison up to three years.
Psychic violence
In a similar way, the penalty for mental violence is up to the year in prison, and according to the child, a particularly vulnerable person or such a work from hatred or through information and communication technology, from six months to five years.
– Information and communication technologies were used for threats and endangering security persons. It seemed to them violence, with the aim of reducing a person’s dignity, unlike shooting, as separate crimes, abuse, publication through communication technologies. In this sense, the ombudsmen constantly indicate that regulations that will regulate and the sphere of digital media in a broader meaning, including social networks. This remains a long-term task, above all, before the Ministry of Communications of BiH – says Jumhur.
Non-governmental sector
He adds that amendments to the Criminal Code should be viewed integrally with the new Law on Protection against Domestic Violence and Violence against Women. The adoption of the law is the first step, because bylaws are needed.
– There is a lot of delays with the adoption of the Rules related to the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence and Violence against Women, which prevents practitioners to implement the law. The next step is to do accessible adopted legislation. If the laws remain a dead letter on paper, then there are problems in implementation – clarifies Jumhur.
Autumn priorities considers the adoption of bylaws, emergency training of police officers, employees of social work centers, non-governmental sectors that provides assistance to victims, but also prosecutors and judges, writes Avaz.
