Source: Deutsche Welle Bosnia-Herzegovina is trekking the long road toward joining the EU. Along for the ride are an uncounted number of LGBT individuals still living in a patriarchal and homophobic culture. Maya Shwayder reports. There aren’t many causes that unite Salafists and football hooligans. But, beating up gay people is apparently one of them. … Continued
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, BiH office, and Sarajevo Open Centre are organizing a presentation of the book “Human Rights and Intersex People” as well as the following discussion. Event will take place in Networks (Sarajevo) on the address Skenderpašina 1 with a beginning at 2 pm.
This year, a group of police officers and representatives of FBiH Police Academy has passed the Train the Trainer program, with the objective to enable their holding of permanent trainings of hate crime modules for their colleagues in Cantonal MoIs.
The series of lectures and feminist discussions Somebody said feminism were continued with the lecture on the subject of Women and right-wing ideologies. The speakers included Jelena Višnjić and Nataša Bijelić, and the moderator was Kristina Ljevak.
Sarajevo Open Centre, in cooperation with the Gender Centre of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held a two-day training on the 6th and 7th of October 2016, for representatives of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Police Administration, the Police Academy of the FBiH and the Directorate for Coordination of BiH Police Bodies. The training for the representatives of these institutions was about the rights and better understanding of the problems faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons in BiH.
After the first training that took place from 8th – 9th September 2016 in a series of three two-day Train the trainer trainings, a second two-day training was held from 29th – 30th September 2016. This year’s participants of the Train the Trainer program were a group of Police Officers of all cantonal MUPs (cantonal ministries of internal affairs). Throughout their first training, police officers learned how to transfer their specialist knowledge and skills to other colleagues, to overcome training and develop presentation skills.
Each year, the European Commission publishes its Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (previously the BiH Progress Report) which, among other topics and areas, covers issues of status and rights of LGBTI persons. In the previous four years, Sarajevo Open Centre delivered written submissions in order to influence the content of the Report from a standpoint of an NGO that protects and works on improving the rights and status of LGBTI persons.
Sarajevo Open Centre, earlier this year, filed a request for examination of violations of the BiH Law on Gender Equality. The ground for filing this request is in the fact that the University of Sarajevo, on the diplomas it issues after the completion of the first, second and third cycle of studies, does not use … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will organize 6 lectures in 2016, which will cover the following topics: Antifascist Women’s Front Archive BiH, ideology and language, challenges facing feminism today, digital feminism, the relationship between right wing, and feminism and reproductive rights.
After the summer break, the fourth cycle of feminist lectures and discussions Soomebody said feminism? occasionally continued in the scope of the 11th edition of PitchWise, festival of women’s art and activism