Statement No. 1 Male politicians and other persons in the public sphere frequently violate the professional and human rights of female journalists during encounters with the media and through social networks. In BiH, 17,4% of respondents fully agree with this statement, while 9,5% do not agree with it at all. In the FBiH, 24.2% of citizens fully agree with the above statement, while in the RS, 30,8% of respondents agree with the statement that the rights of female journalists are consistently violated in the public sphere by men, including politicians and others. Statement No. 4 Media companies and organizations protecting women’s human rights should respond more effectively in cases of offensive speech and public violence against female journalists. Citizens of BiH are fairly evenly distributed on this issue: roughly one third of respondents fully agree, one third partially agree, and one third partially disagree, while 2,2% do not agree at all. Statement No. 2 The way politicians address and speak to female journalists differs significantly from the way they speak to and address men, including journalists, camera operators and other men in the media. As with the previous statement, the highest share of agreement, at 35,4%, but also of complete disagreement, at 13,9%, is observed among citizens of Republika Srpska. The share of those who partially disagree is also high, at 46,2%. However, only 1,3% of respondents in the RS fully agree with this position. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27,8% fully agree, 42,3% partially agree, 2,.2% disagree, and 5,7% completely disagree. Statement No. 5 State institutions and bodies responsible for gender equality, as well as the judiciary, should work harder and more effectively to punish attacks on female journalists, regardless of whether the perpetrators are politicians, persons in public office or ordinary citizens. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 88% of citizens either partially or fully agree with this statement. In the RS, this share is slightly below 50%, which is approximately equal to the share of those at the other end of the scale, meaning those who do not agree at all or only partially agree. Statement No. 3 The speech of politicians and the way they address female journalists at press conferences and other public events is discriminatory and indecent, constitutes gender-based violence, and is contrary to the constitutional principles and legal regulations of the state and entities. This strong and explicit statement concerning the behavior of politicians and their verbal insults toward female journalists, defined here as gender-based and unconstitutional or unlawful violence, also had a much higher share of full support in the FBiH, at 27,7%. In Republika Srpska, only 2,5% of respondents fully agree, but the share of those who generally agree with this statement is much higher, at 33,5%. Statement No. 6 State institutions and the judiciary should work harder and more effectively to punish perpetrators of attacks on female journalists, regardless of whether they are politicians, persons in public of­fice, or ordinary citizens. The focus of this statement is more on whether politi­cians, persons in public office, or ordinary citizens bear a greater degree of responsibility when it comes to at­tacks on female journalists and whether, if they do, they should be punished proportionately. In the Feder­ation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 53,5% fully agree with this statement, while 35,3% somewhat agree. In RS, the share of those who disagree with this state­ment is very similar to the share of those who agree: around 47% disagree and around 50% agree. Survey of media freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2026 9