Why, 20 years after the Dayton agreement, are BiH citizens still impoverished and vulnerable populations still lacking rights? What must be done to improve the situation? Journalist Kristina Ljevak, author of the film, narrates a film consisting of interviews with Bosnian-Herzegovinian human rights, political, and cultural experts, including Jadranka Miličević of the CURE Foundation, Saša … Continued
Report Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Data collected from March to November 2013 is the product of the hate crime monitoring and documentation work of Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC) in the period March 1st to October 31st 2013, during which we documented 18 cases of hate crime, 5 cases … Continued
Vladana Vasić (2014): Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Data collected from March to November 2013 Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar. PDF version (English): Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Data collected from March to November 2013
Vladana Vasić (2014): Homofobni i transfobni incidenti i zločini iz mržnje u Bosni i Hercegovini u periodu od marta do novembra 2013. godine Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar. PDF version (B/C/S): Homofobni i transfobni incidenti i zločini iz mržnje u Bosni i Hercegovini u periodu od marta do novembra 2013. godine
Women’s Network BiH, which consists of women’s civil society organisations, women’s groups, individuals who advocate feminist principles in their activities, is demanding that Gender Equality Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina renames Gender Week to Women’s and Girls Human Rights Week. The Agency was planning to organize the series of events under this moniker during February … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre and Open Society Fund BiH invite you to the lecture HOW DOES DEEP SOCIAL MODERNISATION HAPPEN? THE CASE OF SPAIN by Jordi Vaquer, the Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. Tuesday, February the 18th 2014, 18h Deep social modernisation has many faces and interpretations. In this lecture, social modernisation will … Continued
We are publishing some of the texts, videos and other kinds of support for LGBT persons that Sarajevo Open Centre received because of the attack on February 1, 2014, at the discussion Transexuality in Transition as a part of International Festival of Queer Film – Merlinka. Many people and organizations from BiH, region and the … Continued
Women, whose rights are not respected, represent one of the most marginalized groups in BH society. Thus, the Women’s Network BiH gives full support to the citizens, who are forced to demand their rights in public protests. Bosnia and Herzegovina became a country that does not guarantee basic social, economic, or political rights to any … Continued
On February 6, 2014, the European Parliament adopted three of its annual reports on the EU accession process for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Last month, MEPs already examined the situation in Serbia and Kosovo. While these reports show that the authorities in Montenegro and Macedonia, whose traditional societies do not differ much from … Continued
In January of 2014, Sarajevo Open centre had submitted its short report on the status of human rights of LGBT persons in BiH to ILGA-Europe. This report is the contribution of SOC to ILGA-Europe’s Annual Review aiming to depict the development of human rights of LGBT persons in Europe in the last year. This Annual … Continued