Category: News

New EU accession reports: LGBTI rights in the Western Balkans and Turkey

In November, the European Commission’s published its annual progress reports on accession states’ progress towards EU Membership. The reports include important and extensive information on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in those 7 countries. The reports show that LGBTI people continue to face discrimination, threats and violence in the Western … Continued

2016 EU relay-race

Last week just over a dozen activists from across the Western Balkans descended on Brussels. The week before, on November 9th, perhaps somewhat overshadowed by news of the US Presidential election results, the latest Enlargement Package assessing the progress of countries in the Balkans and Turkey towards accession to the EU was published by Directorate-General … Continued

Within Reach – Making LGBTI rights a reality in the Western Balkans

Every year the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG Near) publishes an Enlargement Package assessing where accession countries stand in implementing key political and economic reforms en route to joining the European Union (see Enlargement Package 2016 here). And every year ILGA Europe in collaboration with organisations working to promote and protect LGBTI rights … Continued

Feminist interpretation of social phenomena. Essays of participants of the Žarana Papić School of Feminism, second edition.

uthors: Aida Spahić, Almina Šatrović, Amila Mujezinović, Amina Selak, Amira Hasanović, Ammar Zeljković, Bojana Vasić, Dajana Cvjetković, Dalila Mirović, Delila Hasanbegović, Elma Čavčić, Emina Kuštrić, Erma Mulabdić, Hana Ćurak, Hasija Omerbegović, Hatidža Dedović, Izudin Karić, Jasmina Čaušević, Kristina Ljevak, Maida Salkanović, Maida Zagorac, Marina Veličković, Melisa Tolja Mešić, Mersiha Jašarević, Nataša Okilj, Nedžada Avdić, Selma … Continued

Trans Day of Remembrance – brutally stopped lives

We are standing with our trans * community, especially we stand for those whose voice cannot be heard. It is our duty to do so every day, and not only on 20th November, when some of them might not be with us anymore.