Do you remember parties held in the garden of the TV soap opera called L word stars, Beth and Tina? If you have never watched this soap opera, but you happened to be in the garden of Sarajevo open centre last night on the community gathering, then you could say that you have been invited … Continued
The Equality Academy programme aims to be a new platform for political leadership and space for joint actions of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations. Third generation of the Equality Academy is intended for: Town/Municipality councilors of the Counciles/Committees in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Heads of municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina; City mayors … Continued
In the following period we will publish articles from our Annual Report on the State of Human Rights of LGBTI People in Bosnia and Herzegovina Failure to Prosecute the Attack on 2014 Merlinka Festival and Attack on Art Kino Kriterion on 4 March 2016 On 1 February 2014, a group of 14 masked men burst … Continued
Emina Bošnjak, Vladana Vasić, Inela Hadžić i Darko Pandurević Pink Report 2017. Annual Report on the State of the Human Rights of LGBTI People in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Izvještaj pokriva period od januara 2016. do kraja aprila 2017. godine.. Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar. PDF (na engleskom jeziku): Pink Report 2017. Annual Report on the State … Continued
As August comes to a close, fewer out-of-office emails populate our inboxes, mornings become more hurried and more leisurely walkers on our morning commutes start to get on our nerves. Now we know that the summer break is over – the European institutions have come back to life after the summer hibernation, and it’s time … Continued
Natalija Petrić, Boris Krešić, Gordan Bosanac, Goran Selanec i Fedra Idžaković Outside the Law: Legal Regulation of Same-sex Partnership in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar Publication available only in B/C/S language
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Ombudsman for Human Rights Institution, after consideration of Sarajevo Open Centre’s appeal, issued the recommendation by which it stated that the Canton Sarajevo Ministry of Transport (MoT) violated the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and by its passivity and silence of the administration it disabled the holding of the protest march against violence over LGBTI persons that was planned for 13 May 2017.
During the July 2017 we organized training on the rights of intersex people for Gender Institutional Mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the one-day education the representatives of the Gender Equality Agency of BiH, the Gender Center of the RS and the Gender Center of FBiH, had the opportunity to hear more about intersex rights, … Continued
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. 10 … Continued
The answers are based on knowledge, analyses and first-hand experiences of civil society organizations acquired in their work.