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The Draft Law on Infertility Treatment with Bio-Medically Assisted Fertilization in the Federation BiH established: improvements needed

After several attempts and draft laws from many sides in the previous years – attempts to regulate this area in the Federation BiH and harmonize the practice of Bio-Medically Assisted Fertilization in all its cantons, the Federation BiH Government, in March 2018, established the Draft Law on Infertility Treatment with Bio-Medically Assisted Fertilization. The Law regulates the pre-conditions and ways/procedures of infertility treatment, all according to regulation on health care, health insurance, patients’ rights, duties and responsibilities. Adoption of this law would enable equal opportunity for all couples, no matter the material status, creditworthiness or the canton they live in.

Preventing bullying: workshops for school pedagogues in Tuzla and Bijeljina

Sarajevo Open Centre, starting with the end of 2017, has been implementing the project “Reducing peer violence/bullying”, with the support of the German Embassy (German Cooperation). Among other activities we have organised and plan to organise various activities. During April 2018 we held workshops on the topic of exchanging experience with the pedagogues and psychologists … Continued

Overview of the lecture of the School of Feminism, 21 April 2018

On Saturday, 21 April, in the scope of the Module 1, Adriana Zaharijević talked about the history of the movement, respectively about the beginnings of the feminist movements in the context of the demands for the political and other freedoms and Sandra Zlotrg lectured about feminist linguistics. On Saturday, 28 April, Miloš Urošević will talk … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition for Combating Hate Crime and Hate Speech appeals to the media and public officials to refrain from incorrect, discriminatory, profiling and stereotyping statements on refugees in BiH

Even though the Balkan route had been officially closed, a high number of migrants and refugees has been trying to reach Western European countries daily. Compared to last year, in the first two months of this year, the number of migrants who tried to enter Bosnia and Herzegovina has increased by seven times.

BiH, a year and a half after adopting the Law on Sports, still has not formed the Sports Council

The amended Law on Sports in Bosnia and Herzegovina came into force in September 2016. The Law introduced the obligation to form the BiH Sports Council, advisory body to the Council of Ministers in the area of sports. By adopting these amendments BiH has, for the first time, regulated the equal participation of women in the Sports Council (it can be formed if both sexes are represented with minimum 40%).

Read the text from the Bljesak.info on peer and cyber violence (only on BCS language). The text was created within the project “Reducing bullying in BH schools”. This project is supported by Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Amendments to the BiH institutions’ Labor Law submitted

With the aim to improve the current regulation of maternity leave and protection from discrimination (harmonization with the BiH Law on Prohibition of Discrimination), representative in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Maja Gasal Vražalica, in February 2018 directed the initiative to amend the Labor Law. The amendments aim at improving the recognition, enjoyment and exercising the rights that relate to the maternity/parental leave. Some of the amendments were made in cooperation with Sarajevo Open Centre.