Sarajevo Open Centre is participating, under sponsorship organisation ILGA-Europe, in a project of monitoring the implementation of the Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (adopted on 31st of March 2010). In 2013, Sarajevo Open Centre started collecting data on work of Bosnian authorities regarding … Continued
In an effort to change the practice that most of the content published on Wikipedia about men is actually published by men, Sarajevo Open Centre has on March 7th, 2018, with the help of the Embassy of the Sweden in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized WikiGapBiH – Edit-a-thon event. Both men and women from various fields of social life participated in the event, with one aim to expand the content and publish information about Bosnian-Herzegovinian women on Wikipedia.
Vladana Vasić from Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC), on 7 March 2018, spoke for N1 TV about the work of the Centre, especially the WikiGapBiH initiative, and commented on the most interesting tweets on Twitter.
Watch the video on peer violence (only on BCS language). Meca Cazin is a famous YouTube influencer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This video 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.
Read the Lejla Reko Šarčević text from the Školegijum on peer 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.
Read the Ivana Bilić text from the Radio Slobodna Evropa on peer 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.
Read the Vanja Stokić text from the e-Trafika on peer 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.
On the occasion of the 8 March, International Women’s Day, Sarajevo Open Centre will organise Edit-a-thon, in Networks, in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), during which 15 volunteers, activists, women and men from public life, will create and edit Wikipedia with content on prominent BiH women.
Sarajevo Open Centre, as a feminist organisation that advocates full respect of human rights and social inclusion of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex) persons and women, organises a series of activities that will mark this significant day and that will draw attention of the public to the burning issues that regard gender equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Embassy of Sweden today signed an agreement with Sarajevo Open Centre, on 22 February, in support of the organization’s Strategic Plan 2018-2020. Sarajevo Open Centre continues with its leading role in the struggle for human rights in BiH, with a special focus on LGBTI, women’s rights and gender equality. An additional support amounting to 4.8 MSEK (approx. 950.000 KM) has been allocated to SOC core programme 2018-2020.