The Sarajevo Open Centre in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) has again prepared a vast programme in celebration of IDAHOT 2015 and achieved great visibility of the day. Their events included an activity to take over public space.
Vladana Vasić (author): Criminalisation of hate crimes under the Criminal code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, Heinrich Boell Foundation
Through Equality Academy programme, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre are trying to make a new platform for political leadership and space for joint actions of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations. First module of Equality Academy is already behind us. This module was held from 22-24th of May in Sarajevo. … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, continues with lectures within the third cycle of lectures and feminist discussions Someone said feminism? The fourth lecture, titled Women without faces – How feminism did not recognize women with disabilities? will be held on Friday, June 26 this year at the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, starting from 6 pm. The lecturer will be Tanja Mandić Đokić, with whom we will discuss about how the society created a prototype of what a woman should be in which women with disabilities are not included.
As a part of the project „Fighting Hate Crime in BiH“, financed by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the OSCE in Vienna and implemented by Sarajevo Open Centre in partnership with OSCE Mission in BiH, a training was held for police officers of Hercegovačko-neretvanski Canton on bias motivated crimes and … Continued
Coalition for Combat against Hate Speech and Hate Crime has sent a proposition to the Parliament of FBiH House of Representatives’ Commission for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms to organize a thematic session on the subject of adequate regulation of hate crimes within the Criminal Code of Federation of BiH. Such a session would … Continued
Boris Krešić, Dr sci. (2015): Same sex unions in legislatures of EU countries. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre.
Where are women in governments? Representation of women and men in the executive branch in BiH. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 2015
On Saturday 30 May, from 10am to 16pm, held the lectures in the framework of two modules, which we heard in the first semester of the Feminist School Žarana Papic.
Sarajevo Open Centre replied to the BiH Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees on May 27, 2015, and submitted statistical data on the discrimination cases on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, documented since 2012 until May 21, 2015. Data on structural discrimination , and relevant statistical data collected through public opinion poll … Continued