Category: News

Reaction to the failure to adopt the hate crime into the Criminal Law of FBiH

WE INVITE POLITICAL PARTIES AND BOTH HOUSES OF FBiH PARLIAMENT TO JOIN POLITICAL DIALOG AND URGENT ADOPTION OF HATE CRIME INTO CRIMINAL LAW OF FBIH Failure to adopt the amendments to the Criminal Law, the House of Peoples of the FBiH Parliament endangered protection of its citizens – FBiH is the only teritory in the … Continued

Numbers that tell the story of LGBT persons in BiH

This article was published on radiosarajevo.ba In the edition Ljudska prava of Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC) a publication titled Brojevi koji ravnopravnost znače was published. This is a analysis of the research results on the needs of LGBT persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, authored by Jasmina Čaušević. SOC has been working on the research of … Continued

First education of police officers on the protection of the human rights of LGBT persons in BiH

Konjic, 23-24 September 2013 As a part of Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights, financed by European Union, implemented by Heinrich Böll Foundation, together with partner organisations Sarajevo Open Centre and CURE Foundation, Sarajevo Open Centre proudly announces the first ever training for the police officers of Canton Sarajevo on hate crime … Continued

Training titled “Women’s Activism and the Rights of LGBT persons in BiH” held in Sarajevo, 5-6 September 2013

As a part of „Coming out! Advocating promotion and protection of LGBT rights“ project, financed by EU, Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Heinrich Böll Foundation, BiH Office and CURE Foundation, training titled Women’s Activism and the rights of LGBT persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina is being currently held in Sarajevo. The participants of the … Continued

SOC in action

Training Women’s Activism and Human Rights of LGBT Persons in BiH As a part of the “Coming out! Advocacy and protection of rights of LGBT persons” Sarajevo Open Centre has, in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation and Foundation CURE, organised a two-day training titled Women’s Activism and Rights of LGBT Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. … Continued

New book „“Ženski pokret u Bosni i Hercegovini: Artikulacija jedne kontrakulture” by Dr. Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović coming out this fall

Sarajevo Open Centre, Foundation CURE and the Center for the empiric research of religion of BiH, as publishers, have an honor to announce the publication of a new book by Dr. Zlatiborke Popov-Momčinović “Ženski pokret u Bosni i Hercegovini: Artikulacija jedne kontrakulture”(“Women’s movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Articulation of one counter-culture”-the book is to be … Continued

Hate crime to be introduced into the Criminal Code of Federation of BiH

Parliament of FBiH adopted the proposition of hate crime definition of the Coalition for combat against hate speech and hate crime On the 23rd of July of 2013 the House of Representatives of the Parliament of FBiH adopted the text of the Law on amendments to the Criminal Code of Federation of BiH and referred … Continued