Every year on this day LGBTI activists are reminding us of the need to create safe space for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and intersex people, the space in which they can live their authentic lives without the fear and hiding.
In September, Sarajevo Open Centre published the publication for medical professionals and healthcare workers on providing services and support to trans persons in the transition process, in scope of the “Positive Action Programme for MSM & Transgender People” project that is supported by ViiV Healthcare UK Ltd.
10 YEARS LATER: A WALK IN OUR SHOES 10 years of activism from the first Sarajevo Queer Festival until today The first Queer Sarajevo Festival (QSF) was supposed to be held from 24 to 28 of September 2008. The Festival was organized by the Association Q. The idea of QSF was to show the everyday … Continued
On the first day of the PitchWise Festival of Women’s Art and Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018, organized by the CURE Foundation, this year under the title – Deconstruction of Patriarchal Norms – Sarajevo Open Centre promoted the book “One su naše danas”. Promotion was the chance for opening up the contemporary feminist themes … Continued
The date of the General Elections 2018 is getting closer and, in this way, the opportunity for all of us to act and to influence on the equal representation of women and men.
Author: Slobodanka Dekić PDF only on BHS Međuvršnjačko nasilje na osnovu različitosti – iskustava i preporuke Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, 2018
We publish the policy paper from the Human Rights Papers Edition – “Cost Assessment of Gender Reassignment: Recommendations for Improving the Legal and Medical Approach to Transgender Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, author: Liam Isić
Conversations about brave women who disagreed with blind obedience and who were defying the rules of the environment in which they lived and struggled for better opportunities inspired the research. This was precisely what a group of people did – they were talking and resarching – sharing the conviction that feminism is important and that … Continued
We publish the report “Monitoring of the Implementation of Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation CM/Rec (2010)5 on Measures to Combat Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity”, author Amina Dizdar
We publish the publication “Medical aspects of Gender Reassignment: Manual for medical professionals and healthcare workers on providing services and support to trans persons in the transition process”