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Klix.ba: Canton Sarajevo Assembly will seek the representation of women in the governments of at least 40 percent

Today, Sarajevo Open Centre, INFOHOUSE and Foundation CURE have required from Canton Sarajevo Assembly the direct application of the Gender Equality Law, which stipulates that the executive branch has to ensure equal gender representation, and generally greater visibility and presence of women in the governments. Led by the example of colleagues from Zenica, whose actions … Continued

Canton Sarajevo Assembly must comply with the Gender Equality Law!

Sarajevo Open Centre, INFOHOUSE and CURE Foundation, tomorrow, on 27 February 2015 at 11.30 am, are organizing the press conference in front of the Assembly of Sarajevo Canton where they will try to hand-deliver the request for compliance with the Gender Equality Law when appointing the Ministers, to the Chairman of the Government of the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, which was also submitted in writing yesterday.

After prompt reaction of NGOs: Zenica-Doboj Canton Assembly requests new proposals for the position of Ministers!

On yesterday’s assembly meeting of the representatives of Zenica-Doboj Canton (February 24, 2015), after prompt reaction of Center for Legal Assistance for Women and Infoteka from Zenica and Sarajevo Open Centre from Sarajevo, it was stated that the proposal for the position of Ministers in the government of this canton, that was submitted by Miralem … Continued

Lecture and discussion: Cosmo-politics: dietary feminism of women’s magazines

Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, shortly before International Women’s Day, opens the third cycle of Somebody said feminism? with lectures and feminist discussions titled Cosmo-politics: dietary feminism of women’s magazines which will be held on Thursday 05 March at the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, starting from 6pm. The lecturer will be Nenad Veličković.

Public call for application to the Žarana Papić School of Feminism in 2015

Sarajevo Open Centre, starting from 2015, will continue women’s studies program “Žarana Papić“. This program was launched in 1998 by the Association Žene ženama as a first interdisciplinary study program about women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Žarana Papić School of Feminism is two-semester academic-activist educational program.