Published on web portal www.diskriminacija.ba In January 2016 company that has cooperated with Sarajevo Open Center for years has refused to place posters that announced Merlinka Festival. It was a reason for Sarajevo Open Center to file a lawsuit. Sarajevo Open Center will be represented on court by the organization called Vaša Prava u BiH. … Continued
his year’s Sarajevo edition of Merlinka has a different program than the Belgrade one – including movie premieres, an exhibition, a discussion about bodies in the public space, as well as hosting the House of Flamingo with their spectacular drag show.
We expect that the Senate will finally have a discussion on the students’ complaints related to hate speech towards LGBTI people, as it just did with the requests to protect the human rights of students who are practicing believers.
Although we’ve seen progress in Kosovo in regard to LGBT rights, implementation of laws, and respect of LGBTI rights, authorities have throughout 2016 still lagged behind in understanding and solving issues that the LGBT community faces in Kosovo’s society.
Recent years in Serbia are marked by evident increase of violence in all social spheres, especially the increase of violence motivated by hatred and prejudice towards LGBTI persons. There are two publicly identified hate crimes in 2016, these attacks were aimed at LGBTI activists.
Although in 2012 the Criminal Code of Serbia has regulated hate crime as aggravated circumstance, this legal institution is so far little used. Judicial institutions are poorly or not at all trained in the use of this particular criminal legislation in practice. Recognizing the gap between the adoption of the regulations and their implementation, Labris saw the need for a commitment to proper implementation of these laws.
In the recent report of Macedonian progress on the way to EU integration, it is stated that Macedonia doesn’t put enough efforts in combating against discrimination. Also, the Commission criticized the country for excluding sexual orientation as one of the basis for discrimination; there is no legal framework that forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation as a separate form of discrimination.
Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December since 1950, when two years earlier, by signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which are inherent in all human beings regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. This year several organizations headed by the Sarajevo Open Centre, Foundation CURE and … Continued
October brought us a lot of socializing, talks, workshops, actions, but also one of the last LGBTI parties this year, organized by Sarajevo Open Centre.
November brought even more interesting guests and gatherings in SOC, stay tuned!
On the 32nd thematic session of the Joint Committee for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament, that took place yesterday (6 December 2016) in Sarajevo, the Special report on rights of LGBT persons in BiH was presented.