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BiH Ombudsmen for Human Rights confirmed: personal name does not have to be harmonized with the sex marker in the identification documents of the person

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.

Representatives of the Canton Sarajevo Ministry of Labour, Social Policy, Displaced Persons and Refugees understand why it is important to talk about the human rights of LGBTI persons

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.

Steps towards equality in education

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

How National Human Rights Institutions protect LGBTI rights in the Western Balkans

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

Pink report 2017: The Media

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

Education: First Step Towards Social Inclusion of LGBTI people

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

Pink report 2017: Seeking Asylum

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 In the beginning of 2016, a new Law on Asylum was adopted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite the advocacy of Sarajevo Open Centre and other civil society organizations, … Continued

Today is Intersex Awareness Day

On this day, 26th of October in 1996 in front of the place where annual conference of Academy of Pediatrics in America was held, the first public protest of intersex persons took place in North America. The protest was not planned, because activists primarily came to participate on the conference, but as they were confronted … Continued

LGBTI community events: The history of LGBTI activism

Throughout work with LGBTI community, we got an impression that one of the biggest problems of LGBTI community in Bosnia and Herzegovina is that they are insufficiently informed. That is the reason why we organized a special event focused on a historical perspective of LGBTI topics, and also a chronological development of formal and informal … Continued