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The Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina reported one incident targeting Jewish religious property.
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Report Data - Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2011
NGO reports
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The Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded a one-year project on monitoring and responses to attacks on religious buildings and other holy sites. The project was implemented in co- operation with Nansen Dialogue Center Sarajevo and the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and recorded incidents that occurred between 1 November 2010 and 31 October 2011 against Muslims, Serbian Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Jews.
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The Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 25 incidents targeting Islamic religious property.
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The Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 14 incidents targeting Serbian Orthodox religious property and three incidents targeting Catholic religious property.
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IGO Reports
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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 78 racist and xenophobic incidents, most of which were ethnically-motivated.
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The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe expressed concern about ongoing incidents and reports of ethnically motivated violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina that act as a barrier for returnee communities.
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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported three anti-Roma incidents.
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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 38 incidents against Muslims that directly targeted Islamic symbols and sites, such as mosques and Muslim graveyards.
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The OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 75 incidents against Christians, the majority of which directly targeted Catholic or Serbian Orthodox symbols or sites, such as churches and cemeteries.
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The OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina reported that two men were physically attacked on the basis of their presumed sexual orientation.
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The Holy See reported two incidents of grave desecrations; four incidents of damage to church property, two of which involved breaking into churches and causing damage; and one incident of damaging and then stealing a bronze statue of a prominent church figure.
