![]() ![]() ![]() Most of us were sent to remote municipalities where from freezing offices we would receive claims from victims and intervene with government officials to negotiate a remedy for the violations. Our task was to help implement the Human Rights chapter of the Dayton Peace Agreement that had brought an end to the Bosnian war. In 1997, fresh out of law school, I joined hundreds of other human rights officers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in one of the largest human rights field operations ever deployed by an international multilateral organization. Between 19 up to 100,000 people, many of whom were civilians, were killed and more than two million were displaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina alone. In fact, many of my colleagues from UNDP’s Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights team started their professional journey in the Balkans. My career as an international human rights lawyer started in the aftermath of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the conflicts that followed in the nineties. ![]()
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