Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC), on 18 February 2019 in Sarajevo, held the training for psychology and medicine students named “Medical aspects of gender reassignment: On adequate, trans specific and inclusive services and support providing to trans persons in the transition process”.
During this month, Sarajevo Open Centre sent a request to the Assembly of Tuzla Canton regarding the consideration of an initiative to rename the Tuzla Airport according to the name of the first BiH woman aviator – Fatima Mušić. This initiative was presented to the Assembly in Novembre of 2017.
After successful realization of the Equality Academy in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre are proud to announce a public call for participation on the fifth generation of the Equality Academy – platform for political leadership and space for joint actions of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations.
In Sarajevo, from 7 to 9 February 2019, SOC organised the seventh International Queer Film Festival Merlinka. Since Merlinka carries a specific topic each year, this year’s slogan was „I am a lesbian, so be it“.
Watch our program coordinator Lejle Huremović in the youth show “Thinking Box” where she presented this year’s content of the International Queer Film Festival – Merlinka in Sarajevo.
In order to strengthen local organizations working on LGBTI human rights,Sarajevo Open Centre has signed a contract on sub granting Tuzla Open Centre and Cetre for Youth KVART.
We are proud to announce that a module on criminal offenses based on hate crime at the Police Academy (FBiH). The training will last for two months and all cadets for the rank of policeman and for the rank of the younger inspector will pass it
Accoridng to the report of Amnesy International, LGBTI people in Chechnya are being abducted, locked up in secret detention sites, tortured and sometimes killed – purely because of their sexual orientation. Two people have already been tortured to death during a recent revival of the crackdown on LGBTI people that started two years ago.
Watch SOC Program Coordinator Lejla Huremović talk about festival Merlinka in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo Open Centre invites you to a two-hour workshop on the topic queer film, organized within the 7th International Merlinka Queer Film Festival in Sarajevo.