Women, from the earliest age, are often victims of sexual harassment. It happens at school, on the street, at work, in the public city transport, at home, during concerts, in the theatre. Therefore, when someone on the street tells us “You’re so hot”, that is not a compliment, that evokes frear, humiliation and discomfort in … Continued
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
On 16 November 2017, the International Tolerance Day, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), on its website that serves for reporting on hate crime, published data on the number of hate crimes recorded during 2016. This is the third report for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo Open Centre, as the organization that advocates full respect of human rights and social inclusion of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex) persons and women, joins this campaign, and will implement a number of activities in November and December of 2017.
Dajana Cvjetković, Vladana Vasić i Saša Gavrić (2017) TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE AND PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX PERSONS. A guide for representatives of institutions on the level of municipalities, towns/cities and cantons in BiH Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
BiH Social-Democratic Party has, in September 2017, in the scope of their campaign „We Are Staying Here“, started working on the Plan for Youth – public policy of the SDP Youth Forum, with the aim to, in the period 2018-2022, create conditions that would keep young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the first time that young people of a certain political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina come out with their plan as a part of the Electoral Programme for the Elections 2018, and that contains tangible, necessary and feasible changes needed for young people’s stay and dignified life in BiH.
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) is currently doing review of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s fullfilment of obligations that derive from the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
On that occasion, Sarajevo Open Centre today participates in the meeting of non-governmental organisations from Bosnia and Herzegovina with the experts of this Committee, which is organised by the World Organisation Against Torture). During this meeting, NGOs will present their observations of the key issues in BiH, and provide the experts with information they will use during the 62nd Committee’s session and meeting with the representatives of BiH institutions.
At the end of two-day training, a chief prosecutor of Canton Sarajevo emphasized that the training greatly contributed to the senzibilization of persecutors on problems that LGBTI persons are facing, and to learn more about the effective ways of combating the incidents and hate crime towards LGBTI persons.