Glossary of fifty-seven phenomenona of LGBTTIQ culture Author: Ivan Šunjić Review of the book: Jasmina Čaušević/Saša Gavrić (editors, 2012): Pojmovnik LGBT kulture. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre/Heinrich Boell Foundation. To write about identities which have been removed and systematically made invisible inside the hetero-normative, patriarchal order means to except a great responsibility and to boldly dare … Continued
The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – IDAHO 2013 On the 17th of May 1992 World Health Organisation (WHO) declassifies homosexuality as a mental illness in the latest edition of its list of diseases and health problems, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Since then this day has been marked … Continued
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Today, on 1st of April, Sarajevo Open Centre has received a memo from the Commission for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of FBiH which informs that the Commission has instructed the Federal Ministry of Justice to initiate the adoption of amendments to the Criminal code of … Continued
The presentation of publication „Monitoring of the Implementation of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Combating Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination” has been held today on 28th of March in Mediacentre in Sarajevo. The panel was moderated by Saša Gavrić, the executive director of Sarajevo Open Centre bio je Saša Gavrić, … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre condemns attack that occurred 24th of March 2013 in which are attacked the activists of organization Okvir, and we want to emphasize that lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are a target to discrimination and violence in B&H society because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, but, because of the … Continued
A report titled „Monitoring the Implementation of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Combating Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity Discrimination“ was produced and published as a part of Sarajevo Open Centre’s Human Rights edition, and as a part of the project „Monitoring implementation of the Council of Europe Recommendation to member states … Continued
Coalition ‘Equality’ says to four political parties as well as to coalition of parties that constitute the Council of Ministers, that any model of constitutional reforms which introduce unequal value of the vote of citizens from any part of BiH, is absolutely unacceptable. According to the completely untransparrent process of negotiations on the implementation … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre is happy to announce yesterday the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime, calling on the European Commission to add homophobia and transphobia to the list of EU-sanctioned hate speech and violence. Since a 2008 Framework Decision, the European Union foresees specific, higher … Continued
On a discussion that was held on Monday, March 11th at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, Coalition Equality presented its model for implementing the ruling of European Human Rights Court in case Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina. This model, titled Unicameral Parliamentary Political System in Bosnia and Herzegovina builds up on … Continued