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Left to right, top row: Nada Rakovic, Mediha Filipovic, Radenka Balta; bottom row, Mirsada Kazazic, Mara Ljubic, Amila Omersoftic.

Bosnia’s Women Political Leaders Seek Visibility

he U.S. Institute of Peace hosted a reception for Bosnian women political leaders on February 3. Representatives of the National League of Women voters also attended the event. Institute executive vice president Harriet Hentges briefed the women politicians on the current work of the Institute in the region, particularly its efforts to help develop a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Those attending included Radenka Balta of the Radical Party of Republika Srpska, a member of the Pale municipal government and businesswoman; Mediha Filipovic of the Party for a United Bosnia-Herzegovina, the only woman in the parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a dentist and university professor; Mirsada Kazazic of the Party of Democratic Action, deputy president of the municipal assembly of Novo Sarajevo; Mara Ljubic of the Croatian Democratic Union, the largest Croat party in Bosnia, an economist and deputy mayor of the municipality of Novo Sarajevo; Amila Omersoftic, president and founder of the Women’s Party and an electrical engineer and director of the national television network in Sarajevo; and Nada Rakovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement, a pediatrician and member of the parliament in Republika Srpska.

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USIP’s efforts to help develop a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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