Author: Emina Bošnjak

TV1.ba, January 25, 2014 – Merlinka – Red!weekend

Merlinka Festival takes place in Sarajevo for the second time. This Festival was organized for the first time in 2009 in Belgrade, with the idea to promote films dealing with gay, lesbian and trans topics. For those of you who don’t know, here’s who Merlinka was.

Media Reporting on LGBT Topics in 2013: More Room for Optimism

During 2013, Sarajevo Open Centre monitored TV, radio, online and print media in order to analyse the way these media report about LGBT topics. The main objective of media monitoring was to present the media image of LGBT topics in 2013, and, through parallel analysis of the most and least representative and professional articles, show … Continued

Towards Positive Practices: BH Media Reporting on LGBT topics in 2013

Lejla Huremović, Kristina Ljevak, Jasmina Čaušević Ka pozitivnim praksama: Izvještavanje medija u 2013. godini o LGBT temama u Bosni i Hercegovini Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar, Fondacija Heinrich Böll – Ured za BiH, Fondacija CURE. PDF version (in B/C/S): Ka pozitivnim praksama: Izvještavanje medija u 2013. godini o LGBT temama u Bosni i Hercegovini

Radiosarajevo.ba, January 20, 2014 – The Number of Women in Decision-Making Positions is Very Low

Kako je povodom promocije knjige Ženski pokret u Bosni i Hercegovini: arikulacija jedne kontrakulture danas u prostorijama Nansen dijalog centra u Mostaru, istakla Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, knjiga je nastala kao rezultat istraživanja o tome kako se formirao ženski pokret u BiH. Isto tako, knjiga je rezultat i istraživanja kada su to žene u BiH počele masovno … Continued

Oslobodjenje.ba, January 21, 2014 – Promotion of Rights Through Cinematic Arts

Sarajevski otvoreni centar će od 31. siječnja do 2. veljače u Art kinu Kriterion (Obala Kulina bana 2) organizirati i ugostiti Festival Merlinka. Inače, Međunarodni festival queer Merlinka pet se godina zaredom organizira u Beogradu (prvi put je organiziran u prosincu 2009.) s idejom promoviranja filmova koji se bave gej, lezbijskom i trans tematikom, a … Continued

2nd Hate Speech Course

Youth Initiative for Human Rights in BiH (YIHR BiH) will organize 2nd Hate Speech Crash Course in the premises of Center for Cultural and Media Decontamination (Centar za kulturnu i medijsku dekontaminaciju) on January 25, 2014 in Sarajevo. The Course is intended for those who applied in the first round, but were not able to … Continued

Bljesak.info, January 20, 2014 – A Book on Women’s Movement Promoted

Fondacija CURE, Sarajevski otvoreni centar i Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije u Bosni i Hercegovini organizirali su promociju knjige Zlatiborke Popov Momčinović pod nazivom ‘Ženski pokret u Bosni i Hercegovini: artikulacija jedne kontrakulture’. Promocija je održana u ponedjeljak u večernjim satima, a domaćin promociji je bio Nansen dijalog centar (NDC) Mostar. Na promociji knjige pored … Continued

Third promotion of Women’s Movement in BiH in Mostar

Sarajevo Open Centre, CURE Foundation and Center for Empirical Research of Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina cordially invite you to the Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović’s The Women’s Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina – In the Words of a Counterculture book promotion, on Monday, January 20, 2014, at 5 pm at Nansen Dialogue Centre in Mostar. The … Continued

Book promotion in Banja Luka: Articulation of Women’s Movement in BiH

After the Sarajevo promotion of The Women’s Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina – In the Words of a Counterculture, the book was presented in Banja Luka on January 16, 2014. Besides Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, the author of the book, Lejla Turčilo and Milena Karapetrović also spoke, and the whole event was moderated by Jadranka Miličević. Lejla … Continued

Newsletter of Sarajevo Open Centre, Number 2, Winter Edition 2013/2014

In our second edition, you can find information on: Research Project on the Needs of the LGBT Community Trainings with the Police and High School Counselors Hate Crime Advocacy Regional LGBT Conference in Sarajevo Seven Publications Upcoming Events Newsletter of Sarajevo Open Centre, Number 2, Winter Edition 2013/2014