Training for psychotherapists – “We are ready to provide support to LGBT people!”
In March this year, Sarajevo Open Centre, organized two-day training for a group psychologists and psychotherapists from Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
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Through Cooperation to Gender Equality in Canton Sarajevo
On the initiative of Sarajevo Open Centre the working meeting named „To improvement of Gender Equality in Canton Sarajevo?“ was held on Tuesday 5th of April 2016. Members of the Club of Women Representatives of Canton Sarajevo’s Assembly and representatives of civil society organizations, Sarajevo Open Centre, Women to Women and CURE Foundation, were present … Continued
The three laws that SOC worked on are in the legislative procedure in the BiH Parliament
The session of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of B&H is scheduled for Tuesday, 5 April 2016, and in addition to several other draft laws the three laws drafted with the input from Sarajevo Open Centre will have their first reading. These are the laws in question: the new Law on Human … Continued
Video: prejudice and stereotypes as grounds of discrimination
Bosnia and Herzegovina prohibited discrimination in 2009 by passing the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination which applies to public authorities (public institutions, companies, administration etc.) and to private sector and individuals. Violating regulations contained in this Law is sanctioned by paying fines.
The Guardian: “The LGBT community is invisible”: using data to fight hate crime in the Balkans
In Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia, NGOs are collecting hate crime data and leveraging the countries’ EU ambitions to push for rights.
“I want to stay here” – Trans Day of Visibility
We want you to read open letters of several transgender people that are around us, all of them living in BiH.
Promotion of the book “1995-2015: Women and Political Life in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina” in Tuzla on 31st od March
Tuzla Open Centre and Sarajevo Open Centre, within Feminist March in Tuzla, are organizing promotion of the book “1995-2015: Women and Political Life in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Book authors are Marina Veličković, Arijana Aganović and Edita Miftari. This will we the fourth book promotion. Three promotions were held in December 2015 in Sarajevo, Zenica … Continued
Conference: “Sharing Experiences and Good Practice in the Process of EU Accession”
The Conference will be held on 30th and 31st March at the BiH Parliamentary Assembly in the Blue hall.
Somebody said feminism: Language – an instrument of marginalization and discrimination
Fourth Series of Lectures SOMEBODY SAID FEMINISM? March-November 2016 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, feminist critique of political economy, the relationship between religion and … Continued
Woman as a shock-worker, laborer and comrade – and this all at once
The fourth cycle of lectures and feminist discussions Somebody said feminism, organised by the Sarajevo Open Centre and Friedrich Ebert Foundation in B&H, started on 15 March 2016 with the lecture by Andreja Dugandžić and Adela Jušić, on the matter of the Report on execution of the first Five-year plan, in the Historical Museum B&H.