Many friends attended the untypical promotion of an even more untypical book: “18+ Book About Non-Conformist Men”. Hainsia Olindi greeted the audience at 10.30 pm and, in her manner, spoke about how it is to be a gay man in the Balkans, presented her categorization of gay men, and explained the straight world’s obsolete attempt … Continued
Students of all disciplines – including law and criminalistics, medicine and social science, and art – as well as all other citizens received the newest local, regional, and foreign academic literature connected with theater, film, human rights, media culture, sociology, anthropology, political philosophy, medicine, and more. The literature is from the perspective of lesbian, gay, … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre and Open Society Fond BiH are organising a regional conference on „Advancing human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans persons in Western Balkans“, on the occasion of the International human rights day on 16th of December. This is the first time that a conference focusing on the status of human rights … Continued
Today, December 10, 2013, in order to celebrate International Human Rights Day, activists and citizens organized a protest march entitled “Human Rights OUTSIDE!” in which around 70 people participated. Activists headed out from the Fine Arts Academy around 10 am, stopping in front of the Federal Parliament building, crossing Ajfel Bridge, and stopping again in … Continued
On Tuesday, December 10h 2013, SOC will sponsor the fifth lecture in the series “Somebody Said Feminism?” at the faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo, junior year hall, 1st floor. This series focuses on feminist themes, the rights of women, and the theme of the fifth lecture will be: Who are the Women in Political … Continued
The Coalition for Combat Against Hate Speech and Hate Crime strongly condemns new instances of hate crime in the public arena as well the inactivity of the responsible institutions in adequately condemning the acts. On Sunday, December 8th, 2013, the portal www.klix.ba published an article about the brutal beating of Mehmed Mujic, the president of … Continued
LGBT Corner will offer students of all levels as well as all citizens the newest regional academic literature from the fields of art, media culture, LGBT human rights, queer theory, LGBT studies, and more. The library and documentation department at the Human Rights Centre has received a rich collection of material as a part of … Continued
Uprkos dobrom zakonskom okviru, nasilje i diskriminacija nad LGBT osobama u BiH se još ne kažnjava na sudovima. Dok je zakon samo mrtvo slovo na papiru, isto je kao i da ne postoji, smatraju borci za ljudska prava. Svaka treća LGBT (lezbejki, gej, biseksualnih, transrodnih) osoba u BiH doživjela je neki oblik nasilja, pokazuje istraživanje … Continued
On Monday December 2nd and Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 in Hotel Grand in Sarajevo, the II Module of Gender diversity and equality in the work of organisations of civil society training was held. The training was organised by Sarajevo Open Centre and Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the trainer was Msc. Dragana Todorović from Novi Sad, … Continued
International Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 10th, on the day of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 when the right of all people to “life, freedom, and security…without any exceptions” was recognized. On this occasion, a group of activists and citizens are organizing a protest march – Human Rights … Continued