SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – A group of women broke Saturday through a police cordon and entered a former warehouse in Bosnia to lay flowers where their loved ones were killed during the 1995 ...

As a young girl, Irena Bjelica had to furtively sneak to football training in defiance of a family who thought she would be better suited as a dancer or model. Today the 24-year-old is a defender for ...

TESANJ, Bosnia (Reuters) - A quarter of a century after their own country was devastated by war, three Bosnian women are struggling to bring home loved ones caught up in Syria's ruinous conflict and ...

ZENICA, Bosnia, June 6 (Reuters) - Erna Huseinovic fell in love with rugby after coaching young children at a local club in the central town of Zenica, the home of Bosnia's first women's rugby sevens ...

The negotiations to end the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked a missed opportunity to challenge the traditional absence of women in political processes and peacebuilding, and the effects are ...

Jadranka Milicevic recalls how her wartime work with the courageous peace activists of Women in Black while she was a refugee in Serbia taught her the importance of supporting others during tough ...

According to Human Rights Watch, gender-based violence and femicide remain serious concerns in Bosnia: "I have been working a lot for the safety of women in Bosnia. We had several domestic violence ...

PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — There were days when she prayed for a bullet to end her suffering. When she thought she was dying of a heart attack, she whispered "Thank you God." A young judge, ...

Today the 24-year-old is a defender for one of Bosnia's top women's football clubs, a team that is winning matches but still trying to win more fans as it battles gender norms in the patriarchical ...