Our contracts are not being extended! Our maternity benefits are not being paid! When planning family or pregnant, we lose our jobs! During job interviews we are asked questions about our marital status, family planning and pregnancy! We work in inhumane conditions, but it is good that we are still working! To all this we … Continued
Panel discussion that closed the conference It is Time for EQUALITY was named Intersex Persons – Legal Overcoming of the Gender Binary. The panelists were Darko Pandurević (Sarajevo Open Centre), Kristijan Ranđelović (Gayten, Serbia) and Kitty Andersen (OII Europe!). Slobodanka Boba Dekić was a moderator of the panel.
Last night in the Museum of Literature and Theatre, exhibition „STAND UP WOMAN! “– Europeanization & Emancipation: A Case of Nafija Sarajlić – Themes and Reminiscences was held with regard to the International Women’s Day.
Second panel discussion was called Protection of the right to self-determination – Legal recognition of gender identity. Panelists were from Croatia, Serbia, Denmark and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Naida Kučukalić was moderating the discussion. In the opening statements panelists explained key terms related to this topic and presented their experiences regarding gender identity and legal recognition, pinpointed main problems of transgender persons and gave their opinions and views how to solve the problems transgender people face.
Changes to criminal laws of FB&H and District of Brčko should be carried out just as ones in Republic of Srpska so they will be aligned with the rules set in Istanbul Convention. This will allow more adequate fight against gender based criminal acts.
Regulation of same-sex partnerships in conservative societies was the topic of first panel discussion and the panelists were Gordan Bosanac (Center for Peace Studies, Croatia), Predrag Raosavljević (Institution of Ombudsman B&H), Boris Kešić (Faculty of Law, University of Tuzla, B&H) and Craig Dwyer (YesEquality, Irleand). Emina Bošnjak from Sarajevo Open Centre was moderating the discussion.
Besides the adoption of advanced anti-discrimination legal framework, the vulnerable groups/minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still the target of discrimination, according to the latest Amnesty International’s annual report.
Fifth Series of Lectures and Discussions SOMEBODY SAID FEMINISM? March-November 2017 Sarajevo Open Centre and Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017 organise 6 lectures in the scope of the fifth cycle of Somebody said feminism?!, whose topics will be related to rural life, pornography, poverty, rap music, cyber revenge and trans* women. … Continued
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 woman as a victim of sexual violence in patriarchal communities is perceived as the culprit, and when she decides to speak about her own experience of trauma, she becomes permanently stigmatized.