Besides the adoption of advanced anti-discrimination legal framework, the vulnerable groups/minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still the target of discrimination, according to the latest Amnesty International’s annual report.
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, rap music, cyber revenge and trans* women. … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre, as a feminist organisation that advocates full respect of human rights and social inclusion of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex) persons and women, organises a series of activities that will mark this significant day and that will draw attention of the public to the burning issues that regard gender equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The woman as a victim of sexual violence in patriarchal communities is perceived as the culprit, and when she decides to speak about her own experience of trauma, she becomes permanently stigmatized.
Sarajevo Open Centre Announces THE PUBLIC CALL For the enrolment of the third generation of students in the Žarana Papić School of Feminism In 2017 With the Žarana Papić School of Feminism, the Sarajevo Open Centre has continued the Women’s Studies Programme „Žarana Papić“, that was launched and led by the Association Žene ženama … Continued
Beginning this week, on the 13th and 14th of February, training about the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex (LGBTI) people was held for the representatives of Coordination Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Monitoring the Implementation of Gender Action Plan for the period of 2013-2017.
The Coalition for the fight against hate speech and hate crimes strongly condemns the homophobic attack on UDIK activists, and warns that the practice of not processing the attacks on LGBTI persons, activists that we witness since 2008 until this day is a shame for the BiH institutions, and should be stopped. We ask the police and judiciary of Canton Sarajevo to, in an adequate and timely manner, react, investigate and process this hate crime, threats and attacks on LGBTI activists that have already been reported during 2015 and 2016, and, before that, the attack on Merlinka Festival in 2014.
Sarajevo Open Centre, a few days ago, filed requests to examine the violations of the Law on Gender Equality to the Gender Centre of Federation BiH, BiH Agency for Gender Equality and a complaint to the BiH Ombudsman Institution, regarding the existing discriminatory provision in the Labor Law of Federation BiH and Brčko distrikt, that prohibits women the work on underground jobs (in mines).
New year has started and January, which had a very active start, is already behind us. Prior to the Film Festival Merlinka, we had an amazing community event with Ivan Pavlic, from the drag-art collective “House of Flamingo” which announced a new circle of community gatherings and conversations. As you may already know, Sarajevo Open … Continued
Upon successful completion of the fifth International queer film festival „Merlinka“ that went by peacefully, with dignity and no incidents, with high number of police officers and security, we want to remind the public of the devastating fact – the lack of prosecution of the attack perpetrators during the Festival Merlinka, on 1 February 2014.