Mr. Mirsad Ćeman, the President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is participating in the work of the Fourth Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe, organised by the AIRE Centre and Civil Rights Defenders and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom, the Government of Sweden, the Regional Cooperation Council and the German International Cooperation Agency GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), which is taking place in Tirana, Albania, on 17 and 18 March 2017.
The objective of the Forum is to promote full implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights in the region and to support the regional cooperation related to the future development of the rule of law and human rights and to assist the countries in the region in the process of European integration.
The Forum participants come from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia and these countries’ judges in the European Court of Human Rights as follows: Ledi Blanku (Republic of Albania), Ksenija Turković (Republic of Croatia), Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska (Republic of Macedonia), Nebojša Vučinić (Republic of Montenegro) and Branko Lubarda (Republic of Serbia), as well as representatives of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, judicial councils, directors of judicial academies, institutions, representatives/agents before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and representatives of non-government organisations and eminent legal experts.
President Ćeman addressed the participants of the Fourth Regional Forum and presented the views and case-law of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the right to freedom of expression and in particular its relationship with the right to respect for private life and the right to a fair trial, media reporting on judicial matters, hate speech on the internet, in politics and in the media. The President highlighted the significance and importance and value of organising forums in general and, in particular, the actuality and usefulness of the Fourth Regional Forum for those involved in legal professions and especially for those working in the area of human rights as well as for overall efforts and outcomes of promoting the importance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in a society.
