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The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network published a major report on post-conflict justice in the former Yugoslavia, highlighting regional challenges in dealing with issues like war crimes prosecutions, missing persons and victims’ participation in judicial processes.

The Bosnian prosecution indicted more people for war crimes in 2018 than in the previous year, but the number of prosecutors working on the cases is still higher than the number of indictments, a BIRN analysis shows.

The search for the remaining missing persons from the wars in the former Yugoslavia is still being hindered by politics, a BIRN conference on regional cooperation and post-conflict justice was told.

A play about refugees by the radical Croatian theatre director Oliver Frljic has united both communists and Christian activists in protest in the Czech Republic – which does not surprise him, Frljic told BIRN. 

Romanians will have the right to ask their employers to let them work from home, and still enjoy the same rights as any employees working in an office, under a new law adopted on Wednesday.

The bill was submitted last year by the Ministry of Labour and was inspired by similar legislation in Japan, according to the Minister of Labour, Lia Olguta Vasilescu.

Marija Ristic has been appointed as BIRN's Regional Network Director, effective from May 1 this year.

She will lead the BIRN Hub, which coordinates the BIRN network, dealing with editorial, training, operations and development, as well as developing, fundraising for and coordinating core regional projects.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has published an e-book about the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, aiming to increase understanding about the newly-established court that will try ex-guerrillas for crimes during and after the war.

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