Sarajevo Open Centre is honored to invite you to attend a thematic conference which will be held on 7th of May 2018. within the framework of the program for 17th of May, the International Day for Combating Homophobia and Transphobia.
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.
On Saturday, 14 April 2018 this year’s Žarana Papić School of Feminism has started, with the fourth generation of students. We began the lecture of the Module 1 – Introduction to feminism: History, terms, theory, whose lead, Jasmina Čaušević, MA of social sciences in the field of gender studies, talked about the feminist studies and … Continued
On the falowing links below you can find Annual Report of the Sarajevo Open Centre for the 2017. 2017: THE YEAR OF CHALLENGES – Annual Report of the Sarajevo Open Centre 2017: GODINA IZAZOVA – Godišnji izvještaj o radu Sarajevskog otvorenog centra
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.
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.
Today, 28 March 2018, we held a press conference in front of the Sarajevo Centar Municipality, where we once again drew the attention to restricting the freedom of assembly.
Regarding the fact that the Bosnian-Herzegovinian women are not represented on BH banknotes, Sarajevo Open Centre has sent the initiative to the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which we suggested that Adela Ber Vukić, Mica Todorović, Vahida Magajlić, Vera Šnajder and Laura Papo Bohoreta should be placed on Bosnian-Herzegovinian banknotes. Below you can find short biographies of these women.
On the streets of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar and Tuzla from 7-21. March 2018 citizens have opportunity to see the billboard campaign with the symbolic name naWIKIvanje.