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 organisation 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
This article was published in Oslobodjenje, a BiH newspaper, originally in Bosnian. English translation below. The life of gay people in Sarajevo is difficult, oppressive, pitiless, and dangerous. It’s pointless to fight for a better tomorrow here, said Benjamin (31), who works as a doctor in Sarajevo, in a conversation with … Continued
SEVEN is a revolutionary documentary drama based on interviews with seven activists fighting for women’s rights from all over the world. Their life stories and struggles are an unbelievable source of inspiration. Farida Azizi (Afghanistan), Inez McCormack (Northern Ireland), Marina Pisklakova-Parker (Russia), Anabela deLeon (Guatemala), Mukhtar Mai (Pakistan), Mu Sochua (Cambodia), and Hafsat Abiola (Nigeria). … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC), in cooperation with Foundation Mediacentre Sarajevo, will continue its work and advocacy for the advancement of human rights of LGBT persons in BiH. In the following two years SOC and Foundation Media Centre will organise several campaigns, round tables and workshops on the rights of LGBT persons and standards of the … Continued
Sarajevo Open Center invites you to the ‘Someone Said Feminism?’ lecture Gender and Nationalism by Professor Nerzuk Ćurak Thursday, February 27, 2014, 6 p.m. Faculty of Political Sciences Sarajevo Skenderija 72, room 18/I lectures are offered in BCS languages About the lecturer: With a PhD in political sciences, Nerzuk Ćurak is a professor at the … Continued
Why, 20 years after the Dayton agreement, are BiH citizens still impoverished and vulnerable populations still lacking rights? What must be done to improve the situation? Journalist Kristina Ljevak, author of the film, narrates a film consisting of interviews with Bosnian-Herzegovinian human rights, political, and cultural experts, including Jadranka Miličević of the CURE Foundation, Saša … Continued
Report Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Data collected from March to November 2013 is the product of the hate crime monitoring and documentation work of Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC) in the period March 1st to October 31st 2013, during which we documented 18 cases of hate crime, 5 cases … Continued
Women’s Network BiH, which consists of women’s civil society organisations, women’s groups, individuals who advocate feminist principles in their activities, is demanding that Gender Equality Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina renames Gender Week to Women’s and Girls Human Rights Week. The Agency was planning to organize the series of events under this moniker during February … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre and Open Society Fund BiH invite you to the lecture HOW DOES DEEP SOCIAL MODERNISATION HAPPEN? THE CASE OF SPAIN by Jordi Vaquer, the Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. Tuesday, February the 18th 2014, 18h Deep social modernisation has many faces and interpretations. In this lecture, social modernisation will … Continued
We are publishing some of the texts, videos and other kinds of support for LGBT persons that Sarajevo Open Centre received because of the attack on February 1, 2014, at the discussion Transexuality in Transition as a part of International Festival of Queer Film – Merlinka. Many people and organizations from BiH, region and the … Continued