The everyday advocacy of non-governmental organisations for the equality of LGBTI persons is faced with constant administrative obstacles, most often in the area of freedom of assembly, despite the existence of the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination.
In this report, Bosnia and Herzegovina received a rating of 31%, which means that no progress has been made compared to the previous year.
Read the text from the Bljesak.info on peer and cyber violence (only on BCS language). The text was created within the project “Reducing bullying in BH schools”. This project is supported by Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Emina Bošnjak, Vladana Vasić, Darko Pandurević, Liam Isić, Jozo Blažević, Lejla Huremović
Pink Report 2018 – Annual Report on the State of Human Rights of LGBTI People in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Report covers the period from January 2017 to the end of April 2018.
Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre.
The institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina are unprepared in treating the increase of migrants and refugees in our country, which has directly reflected on the conditions these people have found themselves in. The reports of the volunteers who, on a daily basis, work with the persons who seek asylum in BiH, protection from persecution from their countries, or pass through BiH on their way towards the EU countries, state that the centres for accommodation are full, that they lack food and have no conditions for dignified living.
On Saturday, 28 April, in the scope of the Module 1,Miloš Urošević, an activist from the Belgrade from organization Women in black, told attendees of this year’s Feminist School, Žarana Papić about the ideas and goals of radical feminism. Urošević, the radical feminist himself, first contextualized the radical feminist movement, stressing that he belongs to … Continued
Audit Report SOC 2017 ENG
After several attempts and draft laws from many sides in the previous years – attempts to regulate this area in the Federation BiH and harmonize the practice of Bio-Medically Assisted Fertilization in all its cantons, the Federation BiH Government, in March 2018, established the Draft Law on Infertility Treatment with Bio-Medically Assisted Fertilization. The Law regulates the pre-conditions and ways/procedures of infertility treatment, all according to regulation on health care, health insurance, patients’ rights, duties and responsibilities. Adoption of this law would enable equal opportunity for all couples, no matter the material status, creditworthiness or the canton they live in.
Sarajevo Open Centre, starting with the end of 2017, has been implementing the project “Reducing peer violence/bullying”, with the support of the German Embassy (German Cooperation). Among other activities we have organised and plan to organise various activities. During April 2018 we held workshops on the topic of exchanging experience with the pedagogues and psychologists … Continued
The Alternative Analytical Report on the Application of Bosnia and Herzegovina for EU Membership is a result of the joint work of organisations and individuals who make up the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH.
On Saturday, 21 April, in the scope of the Module 1, Adriana Zaharijević talked about the history of the movement, respectively about the beginnings of the feminist movements in the context of the demands for the political and other freedoms and Sandra Zlotrg lectured about feminist linguistics. On Saturday, 28 April, Miloš Urošević will talk … Continued