Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH: Proposals for the Improvement of the Institutional Framework for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights through the Reform of the Institution of Ombudsman for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, July 2015
Edita Miftari (2015) Gender Equality in Municipalities and Cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo: CURE Foundation, Sarajevo Open Centre
Bosnia Daily, August 5, 2015 PDF version find here. A coalition of 30 civil society organizations from across Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a panel last week on the reform of the institution of ombudsman. Sasa Gavric, executive director at Sarajevo Open Center and the “Initiative for Monitoring of European Integrations” coalition’s activist said that the … Continued
The fifth lecture of third cycle of Somebody said feminism?, called Femininity, masculinity and sevdah was held on 22 July this year at the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts. Damir Imamović, the lecturer, interpreted in the traditional song – sevdah with a new, feminist perspective, while remaining true to tradition.
Sarajevo open centre welcomes the adoption of the Framework Strategy for Implementation of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period 2015-2018. This Framework Strategy was adopted by the BiH Council of Ministers. In this way Bosnia and Herzegovina became one of the … Continued
Initiative for monitoring the European integration of BiH, as a coalition of thirty civil society organizations, organizes press conference on observations from the Alternative Progress Report 2015 on the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the process of EU integration. It represents the current state of the EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the … Continued
Initiative for the monitoring of the European Union integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Alternative Progress Report 2015: Political Criteria Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre July, 2015
Last week Sarajevo Open Centre has sent a memo with the initiative to use gender sensitive language in the Parliament of FBiH and in National Assembly of Republika Srpska. This request was sent to the Commission for Gender Equality at the FBiH Parliamentand to the Committee on Equal Opportunities of National Assembly of Republika Srpska. … Continued
First semester of Žarana Papić School of Feminism was finished in June. During it, students listened to the lectures from the first two modules: Introduction to feminism: history, concepts, theories and State, law and equality: de jure and de facto.
Last week, Sarajevo Open Centre has sent a request for aligning existing laws and adoption of new, which would finally regulate the issue of maternity benefits and maternity/parental leave in Federation of BiH to the Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Fadil Novalić, as well to the Chair of the Commission for Gender Equality at the Parliament of Federation of BiH – Jasna Duraković-Hadžiomerović, and to the Chair of the Club of Women Parliamentarians in the FBiH Parliament – Kenela Zuko.