Sarajevo Open Centre Announces THE PUBLIC CALL For the enrolment of the third generation of students in the Žarana Papić School of Feminism In 2017 With the Žarana Papić School of Feminism, the Sarajevo Open Centre has continued the Women’s Studies Programme „Žarana Papić“, that was launched and led by the Association Žene ženama … Continued
Beginning this week, on the 13th and 14th of February, training about the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex (LGBTI) people was held for the representatives of Coordination Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Monitoring the Implementation of Gender Action Plan for the period of 2013-2017.
The Coalition for the fight against hate speech and hate crimes strongly condemns the homophobic attack on UDIK activists, and warns that the practice of not processing the attacks on LGBTI persons, activists that we witness since 2008 until this day is a shame for the BiH institutions, and should be stopped. We ask the police and judiciary of Canton Sarajevo to, in an adequate and timely manner, react, investigate and process this hate crime, threats and attacks on LGBTI activists that have already been reported during 2015 and 2016, and, before that, the attack on Merlinka Festival in 2014.
Sarajevo Open Centre, a few days ago, filed requests to examine the violations of the Law on Gender Equality to the Gender Centre of Federation BiH, BiH Agency for Gender Equality and a complaint to the BiH Ombudsman Institution, regarding the existing discriminatory provision in the Labor Law of Federation BiH and Brčko distrikt, that prohibits women the work on underground jobs (in mines).
Upon successful completion of the fifth International queer film festival „Merlinka“ that went by peacefully, with dignity and no incidents, with high number of police officers and security, we want to remind the public of the devastating fact – the lack of prosecution of the attack perpetrators during the Festival Merlinka, on 1 February 2014.
On the second day of Merlinka Festival, held on 28th of January in Art Cinema Kriterion, panel discussion named Our personal is political too was held. Naida Kučukalić was moderating the discussion and participants were Nera Mešinović (activist from B&H), Nina Đurđević (photographer from Croatia) and Marino Sorel i Entity from Croatian queer art group House of Flamingo. Aim of discussion was to answer the questions of coming out in conservative and homophobic society, and in what way individual activism changes the status quo that many LGBT people are forced to accept.
Sarajevo Open Centre has, in January 2017, received the information that the Canton Sarajevo Draft Law on acquisition, keeping and carrying of weapons and ammunition was established.
Last Saturday, International Queer Film Festival Merlinka closed its doors for the fifth time. This year, there was record attendance of over 500 people. In the attendance there were some well-known people from political and public life. With some of them we managed to have a talk and here are some of their messages.
Three years ago, on Saturday, 1st February 2014, at 3:15 in the afternoon, at the beginning of a discussion on the topic “Transsexuality in Transition” a group of 14 masked men forced their way into the Art Kriterion Cinema in Sarajevo, with the aim of attacking those present.
Sarajevo Open Centre cordially invites you to the International Conference about human rights of LGBTI people titled It is Time for Equality that will take place on the 22th of February 2017 in hotel Courtyard by Marriott, address Skenderija 1, in Sarajevo.