THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 2 (Hina) - A three-day conference on witness welfare, which will bring together health and welfare professionals from both entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is scheduled to start at the UN war crimes tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 2 (Hina) - A three-day conference on witness
welfare, which will bring together health and welfare
professionals from both entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is
scheduled to start at the UN war crimes tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia in The Hague on Wednesday. #L#
The first of its kind, the workshop will be attended by 24
psychiatrists, physicians, psychologists and social workers from
the Muslim-Croat federation and Republika Srpska, the tribunal
announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The professionals invited are currently practising in the areas
where most tribunal witnesses reside.
Participants will have working meetings with representatives of
the tribunal's Victims and Witnesses Service with a view to
developing protocols of services to be offered to witnesses.
Similar conferences will be held next year with experts from
Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Kosovo, and will be funded by
the European Commission.
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