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IDAHOBIT 2021 Celebration Program: “Together: Resisting, Supporting, Healing!”

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) has been celebrated since 2004 to draw attention to the stigmatization, violence, and discrimination faced by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and intersex individuals, as well as people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics that are not hetero and cisnormative. IDAHOBIT Day, May … Continued

Vladana Vasić: Although I am leaving, SOC is my chosen family

After nine challenging and successful years, our dear Vladana Vasić has completed her engagement at the Sarajevo Open Centre. As she says, the Sarajevo Open Centre is an organization that has shaped her professional growth and development, and she will continue to inherit the values she has developed over time and support the work of … Continued

Invitation to LGBTIQ+ people awaiting IDAHOBIT: Write a letter!

Since 2004, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) has been celebrated to draw attention to the stigmatization, violence, and discrimination faced by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and intersex individuals, as well as people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics that are not hetero and cisnormative. IDAHOBIT Day, May … Continued

Job vacancy: We are looking for a Programme Coordinator

Sarajevo Open Centre is announcing a job vacancy in the following capacity: Program Coordinator Field of work: Human rights of LGBTI people Job description The Sarajevo Open Centre is looking for a Program Coordinator who will independently implement programs and projects in the field of human rights within the Sarajevo Open Centre’s program team, with … Continued

Invitation to participate in the LGBTIQ+ peer support group

We invite LGBTIQ+ people to apply for participation in the peer support group led by our peer advisor Mateo Čovčić. Peer support groups are regular online gatherings of LGBTIQ+ people that offer emotional and social support to one another. The groups are open, which means that everyone can join regardless of when they sign up. … Continued

International Trans Visibility Day – 31 March 2021

Transgender persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot exercise their rights – legal gender recognition is possible only after complete medical gender reassignment, and endocrinological therapy and surgery can be performed only abroad and the costs are borne by the transgender persons themselves, because the BH medical facilities do not cover them. March 31 marks the … Continued

Civil society organisations to the Ministry of Justice of BiH: Withdraw the Preliminary Draft Law on Freedom of Access to Information for revision

Civil society organisations call on the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Ministry) to withdraw the Preliminary Draft Law on Freedom of Access to Information for revision because it is not in line with international standards and best practices. In some parts, the Preliminary Draft jeopardizes the acquired rights and achievements from the … Continued