Provision of a Child’s Right to Healthcare in the Transitional Justice Context of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Provision of a Child’s Right to Healthcare in the Transitional Justice Context of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the provision of healthcare for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the context of the ongoing transitional justice process. First, I argue for the existence of a universal human right to healthcare for children, before turning to transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and placing the right to healthcare in this societal context. By outlining the existing legislation related to children‘s healthcare and examining its shortcomings, I hope to illustrate how impediments to healthcare for Bosnian children affect the country‘s ability to progress towards the goals of transitional justice, healing being among them. Moreover, I seek to highlight the connections linking a functioning government, children‘s healthcare, the success of transitional justice and Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s future. By underscoring the importance of governmental assurance of children‘s access to the human right to healthcare at a time when Bosnians are coming to terms with a history of rights abuse and war, I wish to demonstrate that provision of this right will ensure that Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a whole, has a healthier future that is focussed on human rights for all.

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