In striving to cover as broad range of issues related to the LGBTI community as possible, the Sarajevo Open Center team has organized a workshop on healthy emotional relations in general, but with a special emphasis on the same-sex and non-binary communities. We have received from many sources the information that the best facilitator for … Continued
After the info session for psychiatrists, the nurses and medical technicians of the Psychiatric Clinic Jagomir in Sarajevo went through two info sessions on human rights of LGBTI persons.
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
All the complaints and requests sent to the Ethical Committee, all the students’ and civil society’s warnings were devaluated. Another punch was set to the high education of Canton Sarajevo by enabling people who actively violate human rights of minorities to create education policies. Once more, the message has been sent that LGBTI students of all UNSA faculties have no place there.
Through the work of the Sarajevo Open Center with the LGBTI community, we have realized that it is imoprtant to dedicate some time to the isolated community of bisexual and gay men. What was particularly worrying for our team is the patriarchal pressure that gay and bisexual men are exposed to and, in most cases, … Continued
This is the first time ever that Sarajevo Open Centre educated workers from the field of social protection of human rights of LGBTI persons.
After the first info session that took place, the representatives of the Canton Sarajevo Ministry of Labor, Social Policy, Displaced Persons and Refugees expressed the wish and need to organize another info session for their colleagues.
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.