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Inclusion of measures for equal opportunities for LGBT persons in health sector in BiH

The Heinrich Böll Foundation, BiH Office, along with partner organisations, is implementing the project Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights, financed by European Union. As a part of this project, research in the health sector was completed, and the results of this research are published in the fifth sectoral report: Rights of … Continued

European LGBT rights advocates gather in Croatia

Published on washingtonblade.com Nearly 300 LGBT rights advocates from across Europe gathered in Croatia from Oct. 24-26 for ILGA-Europe’s annual conference. Croatian President Ivo Jospović on Thursday welcomed those who attended the gathering in Zagreb, the country’s capital, in a video message. “I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your courage and perseverance in … Continued

BH Dani, October 25, 2013 – No public events, this is the Balcans!

This article is about the third sectoral report (Rights of LGBT persons in BiH: Interior) published as a part of the Coming out! project and it was published in BH Dani, on October 25, 2013. LGBT i policija Vide li pripadnici mupova nevidljive grupe Piše Kristina Ljevak Fondacija Heinrich Böll u BiH u suradnji sa … Continued

BH Dani, October 25, 2013 – Political parties are like men’s clubs

Interview with Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović in magazine Dani, no. 854. Zlatiborka is a collaborator of Sarajevo Open Centre and one of the lecturers in Somebody Said Feminism? series of Lectures. Njenih 5 minuta Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović, profesorica na Filozofskom fakultetu u Istočnom Sarajevu Piše: Masha Durkalić U okviru ciklusa Neko je rekao feminizam Zlatiborka Popov … Continued

“Numbers of Life” presented in Kriterion

Numbers of life – analysis of the results of the research on needs of LGBT persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina was presented yesterday, on October 22, 2013, in Art Cinema Kriterion. This publication, which is the result of cooperation between Sarajevo Open Centre and Open Society Fund, BiH, was presented by Saša Gavrić, Executive Director … Continued

17th ILGA EUROPE Annual Conference, Zagreb, October 24-27 2013

ILGA-Europe’s seventeenth Annual Conference named Family matters! Reaching out to hearts and minds will take place in Zagreb on 24-26 October 2013. The Conference consists out of 35 workshops, and meetings which can be organized during the conference or in the participants’ free time. Almost 250 representatives of LGBTI organizations from 42 member countries will … Continued

New initiative for adoption of hate speech and hate crime

After the failed attempt to introduce hate crime into the Criminal Law of FBiH in September and overturning of the draft in the House of Peoples, Coalition Against Hate Crime and Hate Speech seized a new opportunity to advocate for the legal regulation of the hate crime and hate speech by the Criminal Law of … Continued

Invitation for training: Gender diversity and equality in the work of civil society organizations

Within the project Gender Diversity, Sarajevo Open Centre in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, invites you to a training titled Gender diversity and equality of civil society organizations. This training is intended primarily for civil society organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose primary activity is not gender equality and training is designed in two … Continued