Responsible journalism: LGBTI persons and media Sarajevo Open Centre invites all students of journalism and young journalists who have graduated in last three years and who are from Bosnia and Herzegovina to participate in school. School will be held from 15th to 17th of March 2017. Purpose of this school is affirmation of rights of … Continued
On the second day of Merlinka Festival, held on 28th of January in Art Cinema Kriterion, panel discussion named Our personal is political too was held. Naida Kučukalić was moderating the discussion and participants were Nera Mešinović (activist from B&H), Nina Đurđević (photographer from Croatia) and Marino Sorel i Entity from Croatian queer art group House of Flamingo. Aim of discussion was to answer the questions of coming out in conservative and homophobic society, and in what way individual activism changes the status quo that many LGBT people are forced to accept.
Sarajevo Open Centre has, in January 2017, received the information that the Canton Sarajevo Draft Law on acquisition, keeping and carrying of weapons and ammunition was established.
Last Saturday, International Queer Film Festival Merlinka closed its doors for the fifth time. This year, there was record attendance of over 500 people. In the attendance there were some well-known people from political and public life. With some of them we managed to have a talk and here are some of their messages.
Three years ago, on Saturday, 1st February 2014, at 3:15 in the afternoon, at the beginning of a discussion on the topic “Transsexuality in Transition” a group of 14 masked men forced their way into the Art Kriterion Cinema in Sarajevo, with the aim of attacking those present.
Sarajevo Open Centre cordially invites you to the International Conference about human rights of LGBTI people titled It is Time for Equality that will take place on the 22th of February 2017 in hotel Courtyard by Marriott, address Skenderija 1, in Sarajevo.
Author: Darko Pandurević Available in B/C/S only: Tijela koja nadilaze binarnost: Preporuke za unapređenje pravnog i medicinskog pristupa interspolnim osobama u BiH Sarajevo, Sarajevo Open Centre 2016.
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.