Sarajevo Open Centre invites all gay, bisexual and trans* man to send their personal, coming out or art stories, photographs, drawings or artwork in other visual forms. Context Sarajevo Open Centre, as a part of its Human Rights programme, intensively works on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. Gay, bisexual and … Continued
A regional workshop, organised by the People 2 People programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Office for Human and Minority Rights of Serbia and ILGA Europe will take place in Belgrade from 17th until 19th June, 2013. Working languages of the workshop will be: English, Serbian, Turkish and Albanian. The P2P Programme … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC), a non-governmental organization advocating for the human rights and decreasing the level of discrimination of lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons invites young, creative and dynamic persons of all sexes, genders, sexual orientations and gender identities, persons who are students or are not studying, those who have finished their studies, … Continued
The third Information Sharing Forum on Gender and Security in BiH will take place in Sarajevo on the 10th and 11th of June 2013. The Forum is traditionally organized by NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, Gender Equality Agency and Project office of UN Women in BiH. This year one of the organizers is Sarajevo Open Centre, with … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre hereby invites you to participate in a discussion HOW TO REACH 40% OF WOMEN IN GOVERNMENTS? GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014 Thursday, 30th May, 2013, 4 pm Meeting Point Cinema, Hamdije Kresevljakovica 13, Sarajevo Participants: Besima Boric, MP, the House of Representatives of the Parliament of FBiH Ismeta Dervoz, MP, the House of Representatives … Continued
In the Human Rights edition of Sarajevo Open Centre, a short guide for journalist titled Kratki vodič kroz profesionalno izvještavanje o LGBT temama has been published. The guide is edited by Jasmina Čaušević and Lejla Huremović, and supported by Internews. After the last years’ guide for journalists on professional and ethical reporting on LGBT topics … Continued
The first part of the LGBT community needs and problems assessment in BiH is finished. Five hundred and fifty persons have filled out the questionnaire. By the end of July, we will publish a detailed descriptional-statistical analysis of the assessments’ results with concrete recommendations for the institutions. Sarajevo Open Centre has been working on the … Continued
Open Letter to Damir Ljubić, the Minister for Human Rights and Refugees, from the civil society organisations on the occassion of International day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
MEMORANDUM 2013 by The Regional Network Against Homophobia for the joint improvement of the legal and social status of the LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer) people in Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Macedonia, Montenegro, Palestine, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey “Memorandum 2013” has been … Continued
A second Pink Report has been published in the Ljudska prava edition of Sarajevo Open Centre – it is the annual report on the situation of the human rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender), authored by Marinha Barreiro, Vladana Vasić and Saša Gavrić. This report has been published with the support of Matra … Continued