The Parliamentary Assembly of BiH has adopted the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH, 59/09) which sets a framework for achieving equal rights and possibilities to all persons in BiH and regulates the system of protection from discrimination.
The Law on Gender Equality in BiH and the Law on Preventing Discrimination in BiH are mutually harmonised in part regarding referring victims of discrimination to use available legal remedies for protection of rights provided for in the said laws (lawsuits, competencies, deadlines, burden of proof, victimization, and other). This Law has established establishing of a mechanism for protection of rights guarantied by the Law on Gender Equality in BiH before competent courts.