Delegate to the BiH House of Peoples and the Deputy Chairman of the Friendship Group for Central and Eastern Europe Nermina Kapetanović spoke today in Sarajevo with the Delegation of Parliamentarians from the Grand National Assembly of Turkey that was on a several day visit to our country.
Kapetanović said that as the first Deputy Chairman of the Joint Commission for Human Rights, Rights of the Child, Youth, Immigration, Refugees, Asylum and Ethics and a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights Protection of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg she would deal with issues on improving the protection of human rights and rights of the child.
She said that our country is a signatory to all international conventions that deal with the protection of these rights, and that in practice protection is not satisfactory due to constitutional provisions that prevent them from achieving equality throughout BiH.
She noted that it is necessary to improve the protection of children, and especially children without any parental care, because their status is not solved after they reach 18 years of age.
“The constitutional division of this country at two entities, and further the development of the FBiH into 10 cantons plus the Brčko district has led to a situation where there are 12 different models on the right to social security and health care. Laws made at the entity level and realized at the cantonal level, which means that the fate of patients and users of social protection depends on the budget at the cantonal level’’, said Kapetanović.
Parliamentarians from Turkey said that in their country in the last several years there have been a number of legislative changes that brought an improvement in the quality of life of the citizens, and in the area of human rights it has brought the country closer to the EU.
Expressing the desire and good intentions to establish successful cooperation in the area of the protection of human rights, as well as in all other areas of mutual concern to both countries, they agreed that it is necessary to continue the current inter-parliamentary cooperation for mutual benefit.
