Category: News

Advocating amendments to Law on Foreigners and Law on Asylum

n the following period, Sarajevo Open Centre planed series of advocacy activities towards amending laws that regulate asylum and foreign people in BiH. The aim of those activities is to ensure adequate recognition and protection of minorities but to ensure better alignment with EU acquis as well.

Pink report 2017: Hate Crime And Incitement To Hatred

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 April 2016, the Parliament of the Federation of BiH adopted the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of FBiH which, inter alia, regulates hate crime in … Continued

Deutsche Welle: Will Sarajevo get its Gay Pride?

In the conservative BH society many phenomena are considered deviant, no matter the fact those attitudes often lead to human rights violations. That is the case with the LGBTI community as well, the people about whom we do not want to know and learn, people of “the closet”.

Pink report 2017: Priority Measures To Be Undertaken

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 Adequate Regulation of Hate Crime and Incitement to Hatred and Violence in Entity and Brčko District Criminal Codes As a member of the Coalition for Combating Hate Speech and Hate … Continued

Pink report 2017: GOOD PRACTICES

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 Amendments to the Anti-Discrimination Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina At last, in July 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) improved its legislative anti-discrimination framework by adopting the Amendments to the Anti-Discrimination … Continued

Proposals to Improve the Suppression of Hate Speech in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Darko Pandurević INCITEMENT TO HATRED, HOSTILITY, DISCORD, VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION – Proposals to Improve the Suppression of Hate Speech in Bosnia and Herzegovina IZAZIVANJE MRŽNJE, NETRPELJIVOSTI, RAZDORA, NASILJA I DISKRIMINACIJE – Prijedlozi za unapređenje suzbijanja govora mržnje u Bosni i Hercegovini Sarajevo, June, 2017