Jakob Finci

The best-known among them is the Sejdic-Finci case, brought by Dervo Sejdic and Jakob Finci, members of Bosnia's Roma and Jewish communities who, under Bosnia's postwar constitution, are barred from running for parliament or the presidency given that they do not belong to any of the country's 'constituent peoples' - Croats, Bosniaks or Serbs.

A decade after the European Court of Human Rights first ruled that the Bosnian constitution violates the rights of minorities, Human Rights Watch, HRW, has said in a press release that Bosnia has done nothing to end second-class status for Jews, Roma, and other minorities.

Sarajevo's architecture and its charming historical buildings often impress visitors to the capital, but for those whose families once owned some of them - or at least, the land on which they are built - they are a painful reminder of what they believe Bosnia and Herzegovina owes them.

"Standing together" against nationalism was the message of the event held on Monday evening by Bosnia's top religious leaders in an attempt to defuse tensions in the country.

The event saw Bosnia's Grand Mufti and the head of the Catholic Church in Bosnia share jokes with Bishop Grigorije of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Jakob Finci, president of the Jewish Community of Bosnia.

A broad-reaching new project to bring Bosnia into line with European anti-discrimination norms launches on Wednesday.

"Various forms of discrimination remain one of the most serious human rights issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina," said a statement by the Council of Europe, which launched the project in partnership with the European Union.

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, on July 15 backed Azra Zornic in her suit against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a case concerning people's rights to run for top posts in the country.

The new ruling puts Bosnia under renewed pressure to change the way it is governed since it echoes the 2009 ruling by the same court in the case of Sejdic and Finci.