A director of psychiatrist hospital Jagomir, Muhamed Ahmić, emphasized that LGBTI population, as any other population, has its own specificities and characteristics, and it is important for psychiatrists to get introduced with their problems that are products of reactions to their sexual orientation and gender identity by the society.
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”.
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
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
We publish the particular texts from the brochure about 10 years of Sarajevo Open Centre’s work.
Amar Numanović Numbers of Equality 2. Research on Problems and Needs of LGBTI Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017 – Analysis of Findings Brojevi koji ravnopravnost znače 2. Analiza rezultata istraživanja problema i potreba LGBTI osoba u Bosni i Hercegovini u 2017. godini Sarajevo, Sarajevo Open Centre, 2017.
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
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. 17 … Continued
Author: Adrijana Hanušić Bećirović National Human Rights Institutions and the Protection of LGBTI rights in the Western Balkans – Experiences, Challenges and Good Practices Institucije za zaštitu ljudskih prava/tijela za zaštitu jednakosti i zaštita prava LGBTI osoba u regionu Zapadnog Balkana – iskustva, izazovi i dobre prakse Sarajevo, septembar, 2017.
Having in mind the expansion of violence and hate crimes against LGBTI persons, we consider the education of police officers on human rights of LGBTI persons to be crucial. Police officers, at the end of the training, emphasised that it contributed much to their better understanding of the issues LGBTI persons face in BH society.