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State Department Report: Council of Ministers Without Women and Sexual Orientation as a Cause of Dissmisal

Recently, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013 Human Rights Report was published, and in its summary it emphasizes that the government corruption and dysfunction remained among the country’s most serious problems and impeded citizens’ rights to basic services, and that human rights violations include discrimination and violence against women and LGBT people. LGBT human rights violations are … Continued

Women’s Network Submission to the EU Progress Report for 2014

On March 27, 2014, Sarajevo Open Centre unveiled to the European delegation its written submission to the Women’s Rights Progress Report in front of the Women’s Network. The contribution was completed with cooperation from the CURE Foundation, Rights for All, the Helsinki Parliament of Citizens of Banja Luka, Women for Women Sarajevo, UDIK, and kolektiv.ba. … Continued

Prior to the UPR of BiH: No Positive Developments in the Field of Human Rights

For the upcoming Universal Periodical Review of BiH for the UN Council for Human Rights, BiH CSOs have prepared four statements. Sarajevo Open Centre made its contribution to two of the four reports as a participant of an informal coalition for human rights that gathered 20 CSOs from BiH under the Sexual Rights Initiative. Sarajevo … Continued

Trans* in transition in B&H

Author: Edina Sprečaković The past year has seen numerous developments in the sphere of the protection of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly in that state institutions haven´t began making much-needed changes to the existing legal framework and applying the framework appropriately. The implementation of international agreements to which BiH is a signatory is … Continued

Discrimination and hate crime as a priority for EU

Following the visit of the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle last week to BiH, when he i.a. talked to a broad and diverse group of representatives from the civil society at the European Union Delegation, several of those organizations have sent a written submission to set priorities to expand the framework … Continued

Becoming Visible – Second Rainbow Network Radio Show

An e-campaign is underway, as a part of Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights, implemented by Heinrich Boell Foundation, BH Office, together with partner organization Sarajevo Open Centre and the CURE Foundation, and financed by European Union. The goal of this campaign is to raise the awareness on the violation of LGBT … Continued

Someone Said Feminism? // Panel discussion: Feminism and (In)formal Education

Sarajevo Open center has marked a Gender Equality Week by organizing panel discussion on the topic ‘Feminism and (In)formal Education’, held on the 6th of March 2014, at the Centar za kulturnu i medijsku dekontaminaciju Sarajevo. The discussion was moderated by MA Amila Ždralović, while introductory word has been given by: MA Aida Spahić, MA … Continued

Radiosarajevo, 6.3.2014 – Lectures “Somebody Said Feminism” End With the “Feminism and (In)formal Education” Lecture

Ciklus predavanja ‘Neko je rekao feminizam?‘ zatvoren je večeras panel-diskusijom o temi Feminizam i (ne)formalno obrazovanje, a uvodničarke su bile doc. dr sc. Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, magistrice rodnih studija Nermina Trbonja i Aida Spahić, a moderatorica je bila Amila Ždralović. Još dok su feministička teorija i feministički pokret bili u povoju, uvidjelo se da je obrazovanje … Continued