Few days ago the public has been informed that the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council in BiH has taken a decision, which prohibits wearing religious symbols in judicial institutions. Taking into account the very deep overlapping of religion and public/political life, such a decision could be seen as positive. Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a secular … Continued
On 26 January 2016 a press conference was held in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the issue of political participation of women in government institutions. Samra Filipović-Hadžiabdić, the directress of the Gender Equality Agency BiH, Mirsad Isaković, the president of the Gender Equality Commission of the House of Representatives of the … Continued
On the 22nd January the Women United Foundation, Medica Zenica and the Sarajevo Open Centre organized a working meeting in Sarajevo, for the representatives of various NGOs, the members of the Commission for Gender Equality of the House of Representatives of Parliament FBiH and the members of the Club of Women Parliamentarians in the House … Continued
The Council of Minister – the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina – adopted on its 36th Session (December 23th 2015) a draft law with amendments to the Anti-discrimination law. The draft law can be found on the following link. If the law is adopted by the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Bosnia and Herzegovina will become the … Continued
Political parties after the General Elections in 2014 have concluded that the Electoral Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be amended in order to abolish existing anomalies. The BiH Parliamentary Assembly appointed in 2015 an inter-ressort working group for the revision of the electoral legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The working group started its activities … Continued
On the suggestion of Sarajevo Open Centre and Agency for Gender Equality of BiH, BiH Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Gender Equality sent into the parliamentary procedure the Draft of Amendments to the Law on the Council of Ministers. These amendments predicts that the Council of Ministers must be composed by at least 40 percent of … Continued
After successful realization of the Equality Academy in 2015, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre are proud to announce a public call for participation on the second generation of the Equality Academy – platform for political leadership and space for joint actions of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations.
On January 29th and 30th, Sarajevo Open Centre will organise and host, for the fourth time, the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival has been organised for seven years in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics. This year’s Merlinka in Sarajevo differs … Continued
Sarajevo, Sarajevo Open Centre, Medica Zenica, 2015. PDF in B/C/S: Finansiranje i osnivanje sigurnih kuca u Federaciji BiH – ka boljim rješenjima.
In the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of B&H, on Wednesday 2 December, the last lecture of the third cycle of Somebody said feminism took place, the subject being Women and museums.