The Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of Bosnia and Hercegovina and the Sarajevo Open Centre invite you to join us on the 29th of June 2017 at 8 pm at the opening of the exhibition “The Sephardic Woman in Bosnia”.
On Tuesday, 17 June 2017 the last lectures and discussions at this year’s Žarana Papić School of Feminism took place. The lecturers this time were sexual violence during the war researcher Gorana Mlinarević and Assistant professor from the Law Faculty, gender and social law researcher. Gorana Mlinarević talked about the cases on which the attendants … Continued
On June 14th 2017, the European Parliament adopted three of its annual reports for candidate and potential candidate EU countries. In those reports MEPs have assessed the rights of LGBTI people in Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo, and recommended the countries to improve the situation.
Last year, Elvedin and his partner Michael got married. Unfortunately, not in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but in New York. They asked their guests that instead of buying them wedding gifts, they donate and support the work of Sarajevo Open Center for which we are immensely grateful. Elvedin was also kind to answer us few questions. … Continued
Miloš Urošević, an activist from the Belgrade from organization Women in black, told attendants and attendees of this year’s Feminist School, Žarana Papić, on Saturday, June 10th, about the ideas and goals of radical feminism. Urošević, the radical feminist himself, first contextualized the radical feminist movement, stressing that he belongs to the second wave of … Continued
During last weekend, the participants of the Žarana Papić School of Feminism had a chance to attend lectures done by Bojana Đokanović and Elmaja Bavčić. The two opened the third and the last module of the School of Feminism, which is to open a range of question on feminist theory and theory of feminism. They … Continued
During May, the participants of the Feminist School Žarana Papić, attended lectures within the second module – State, Law and Public Policy. Adnan Kadribašić and Miroslav Živanović lectured on legal and political review of the institutional framework for gender equality and women’s rights and on drafting policy proposals and effective communication in the area of … Continued
The main goal of this training was to introduce the judiciary community with the promotion of anti-discrimination and criminal law and practice in the field of human rights protection with emphasize on LGBTI persons as a marginalized social group, important for their work in judicial institutions.
During May, the participants of the Feminist School Žarana Papić, will attend lectures within the second module – State, Law and Public Policy. Adnan Kadribašić and Natalija Petrić lectured on legal and political review of the institutional framework for gender equality and women’s rights. The realisation of the Žarana Papić School of Feminism is being … Continued
We invite you to the press conference of Sarajevo Open Centre that will take place on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 11 A.M. at the square in front of the Parliament of Federation BiH, where we will present the main findings from the Pink Report 2017 – the Annual Report on the state of Human Rights of LGBTI persons in BiH, that gives an overview of the state of human rights of LGBTI persons for the period from January 2016 to April 2017.