Bosnia and Herzegovina

Almost landlocked in the Balkans, Bosnia and herzegovina is linked to the Adriatic Sea by a small corridor of land. Bosnian politics still bear the marks of the conflict which accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which devastated national infrastructure and led to the country’s unusual political structure, defined along ethnic and cultural lines. The States most prominent human rights concerns also relate to the war of the 1990s, including the slow progress in trying those responsible for war crimes and addressing the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons.