Category: News

“Rights of LGBT Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Interior” Published

The third report produced as a part of the project Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights, financed by European Union and implemented by implementira Heinrich Boell Foundation – BH Office, together with parnter organisations Sarajevo Open Centre and CURE Foundation on the rights and freedoms of LGBT persons in the context of … Continued

Besima Borić’s Candidacy for the Prestigious Anne Klein Women’s Award

Sarajevo Open Centre, Association for Culture and Arts CRVENA, Association Rights for All, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Banja Luka, Center for Empirical Study of Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo TPO Foundation and the Women’s Forum of Bratunac, submitted Besima Borić’s candidacy for Anne Klein Women’s Award, which is awarded annually by Heinrich Böll Foundation. Heinrich … Continued

Theatrical reading of Srđan Sandić’s texts and conversation with the author, October 4th, Mak

Drama (t)Umor converses with monodrama Zagreb mon amour through polilogues, dialogues and monologues. Mon amour ends where (t)Umor begins and vice versa. Both dramas revolve around the lack of subject and meeting the horrorifying blocks of thought on happiness and love. It is about encountering paucity, in which autonomous language beyond classical principles of naration … Continued

Numbers of Life Presented

Sarajevo Open Centre and Internews have organized sixth info session for journalists in Sarajevo on LGBT topics. The goal of these sessions is providing information related to the rights of LGBT persons, as well as to introduce correct terminology to the journalists and achieving professional and ethical media reporting. The results of the research on … Continued

First education of 19 community police officers on the rights of LGBT persons held

The first education on hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the community police officers of Canton Sarajevo took place in Konjic, hotel Garden City, on 23 and 24 September, 2013, as a part of Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights, financed by European Union, implemented by Heinrich Böll … Continued

First paper in the new edition Human Rights Papers

In 2013, Sarajevo Open Centre has established a new edition titled Human Rights Papers. This edition, which will feature papers only in English, will present short, focused and/or thematic reports to the international and national audience on the state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the issue of the development of human rights … Continued