Fifth Series of Lectures and Discussions SOMEBODY SAID FEMINISM? March-November 2017 Sarajevo Open Centre and Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017 organise 6 lectures in the scope of the fifth cycle of Somebody said feminism?!, whose topics will be related to rural life, pornography, poverty, music, cyber revenge and trans* women. 20 … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre, at the proposal of Feđa Bobić, raises the initiative to the Tuzla Canton Assembly to name the Tuzla International Airport after the first woman pilot in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Fatima Mušić. Fatima Mušić, later married surname Manojlović, has been the first woman pilot in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has been a … Continued
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
In August 2017 the Ministry of Interior in Tuzla (MoI) disabled the name change of the person to a name that is not harmonized with the sex marker on the identification document, to a transgender person who filed this request. The employers of this MoI claimed that it is not possible to change the name which is in accordance with the gender identity, but not with the biological sex, before the person completely reassigns his/her sex surgically, and changes the sex mark on personal documents.
On 30 October 2017 Sarajevo Open Centre held a half-day Info Session with the representatives of the sectoral institutions of the Canton Sarajevo Ministry of Labour, Social Policy, Displaced Persons and Refugees, for the following institutions: Therapeutic community University of Sarajevo Campus, Family Counselling, Disciplinary Center for Juveniles and the Ministry itself.
In 2017, CURE Foundation implemented a project titled “Utilizing the EU integration process for the improvement of LGBT rights in the Western Balkans” with the financial support of the Sarajevo Open Center. During the second year of this project, a research entitled “LGBT topics in elementary schools?” was conducted, where elementary school textbooks in the … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre published a policy paper titled „National Human Rights Institutions and the Protection of LGBTI rights in the Western Balkans – Experiences, Challenges and Good Practices“. The results of the research on the experiences of bodies for the protection of human rights or equality in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia … Continued
In the fallowing period we will publish articles from our Annual Report on the State of Human Rights of LGBTI People in Bosnia and Herzegovina Legal Framework The codes of professional journalist ethics in BiH exist at the level of Communications Regulatory Agency BiH, the Press Council BiH and at the level of certain journalist … Continued
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
Due to generally bad social climate that can be recognized in Serbia, with a high degree of intolerance, homophobia, discrimination and even violence towards LGBTI community, the need for the analysis of high school textbooks rose. Labris conducted the first textbook analysis in 2014. The analysis included textbooks in the area of biology, medicine and … Continued