Bosnia-Herzegovina: The international community's responsibility to ensure human rights

On 13 and 14 June 1996, all states, international organizations and agencies involved in the implementation of the Dayton Agreement will meet in Florence to review the first seven months of the implementation process. In advance of this critical meeting, Amnesty International has issued a comprehensive document expressing deep concern about the uncertain start to the international community's implementation of the human rights provisions of the 1995 peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina - as well as the weaknesses of the human rights implementation mechanisms in the agreement. Amnesty International has also issued a 10-Point Program for the International Community to Implement Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Several parties to the peace agreement - and all of the states participating in IFOR (the multinational Implementation Force for Bosnia-Herzegovina) - have violated their obligations under international law to search for those responsible for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.