| FIET Commerce FIET Central and Eastern Europe 30 June, 1998 |
 The FIET solidarity project in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| FIET Commerce FIET Central and Eastern Europe 30 June, 1998 |
The FIET solidarity project in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
International Mourning Day:
Commerce union in Sarajevo remembered the children who lost their lives
| Of the 10,000 civilians who were killed by snipers or artillery during the siege of Sarajevo, many where children. On the 3rd International Mourning Day in April, the Commerce Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina laid down flowers on their memorial in central Sarajevo. |  |
Although facing big structural and economical changes itself, the Commerce Trade Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina tries to participate in FIET's more general work. Thus, the union followed FIET's request to commemorate the 3rd International Mourning Day, which this year was part of the global campaign against child labour.
Because of the terrible events that Bosnia and Herzegovina has had to experience, the Commerce Trade Union dedicated this day to the children as civil victims of the war as well as to the children who have lost their lives to land mines after the war was over.
On Thursday, 28 April, a delegation of CTUBIH brought 59 carnations on behalf of its 59 locals to the Children's Square in Sarajevo, the symbol of children who suffered during and after the war.
The flowers were laid down by the monument by Hasan Kovac, president of the Commerce Trade Union of BiH, assisted by Mersiha Besirovic, deputy director of the FIET Project Office. Mr. Dusko Tomic, General Secretary of the Children's Embassy in Sarajevo was also present at the ceremony, which was widely covered in national and local media.
In his commemorative words, Mr. Tomic said that the Commerce Trade Union is the first institution of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina that pays attention to the country's children. On behalf of the Embassy he invited CTUBIH and the FIET Project Office in Sarajevo to participate actively in the Round Table against child labour in BIH, in May 1998.
The president of CTUBIH has used this opportunity to inform the media about the existence of child labour in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. He said that the Commerce Trade Union sincerely hopes that in the near future, it will be able to fight more actively against child labour, as well as against all other violation of workers' and human rights.
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