Semiha Borovac
| Semiha Borovac | |
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| Minister for Human Rights and Refugees | |
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Assumed office 13 March 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Denis Zvizdić |
| 36th Mayor of Sarajevo | |
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In office 29 March 2005 – 29 January 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Muhidin Hamamdžić |
| Succeeded by | Alija Behmen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 March 1955 Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Party of Democratic Action |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Semiha Borovac (born 2 March 1955) is a Bosnian politician who served as the mayor of Sarajevo, holding office from 2005 until 2009. She is Sarajevo's only female mayor to date and is also a member of the Party of Democratic Action. Currently, Boravac is the Minister for Human Rights and Refugees.
Borovac served as mayor of Sarajevo from 2005 until 2009.
She was elected Minister for Human Rights and Refugees on 13 March 2015. Within her first year in office, Borovac met with refugee families across Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 26 January 2016, Borovac signed an agreement with mayors from cities throughout the country and ministers of both entities, promising to have 438 homes built for families displaced by the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
Borovac attended first the "Ahmet Fetahagić" elementary school and then the "Druga Gimnazija" secondary school in Sarajevo. She went on to university, graduating from the Sarajevo Law School in 1977 and qualifying as a judge in 2000. In 2001 she also qualified as a trainer with the Citizens' Association for Local Development Initiative.
Borovac is married with two daughters.
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