Category: News

Cooperation with the law enforcement institutions on Federal and State level has started

Sarajevo Open Centre, in cooperation with the Gender Centre of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held a two-day training on the 6th and 7th of October 2016, for representatives of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Police Administration, the Police Academy of the FBiH and the Directorate for Coordination of BiH Police Bodies. The training for the representatives of these institutions was about the rights and better understanding of the problems faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons in BiH.

Train the Trainer program: “The training will help us to appropriately recognize hate crimes”

After the first training that took place from 8th – 9th September 2016 in a series of three two-day Train the trainer trainings, a second two-day training was held from 29th – 30th September 2016. This year’s participants of the Train the Trainer program were a group of Police Officers of all cantonal MUPs (cantonal ministries of internal affairs). Throughout their first training, police officers learned how to transfer their specialist knowledge and skills to other colleagues, to overcome training and develop presentation skills.

Movie screening on the occasion of Bi Visibility Day

On 23rd of September, Bi Visibility Day that is observed as one of the important days in LGBTI+ Calendar, Sarajevo Open Centre organized a movie screening, within its gatherings with LGBTI community. The movie „Kinsey“ was one of the best screenings we have organized in past months. In the entire LGBT + calendar, important dates … Continued

Awaiting European Commission’s Progress Report 2016

Each year, the European Commission publishes its Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (previously the BiH Progress Report) which, among other topics and areas, covers issues of status and rights of LGBTI persons. In the previous four years, Sarajevo Open Centre delivered written submissions in order to influence the content of the Report from a standpoint of an NGO that protects and works on improving the rights and status of LGBTI persons.

First School of LGBTI activism has started

Just as we have announced, Sarajevo Open Centre has started its first School of LGBTI activism in September 2016. With around twenty participants of the School, from Sarajevo and some other cities, our aim is to introduce them to our queer history, empower them as activists and citizens for active participation in the society, regarding … Continued

On (lesbian) feminism with Biljana Ginova

New season of LGBTI people gatherings has started After numerous events organized for the LGBTI community, in the period January-July, it was time to open the new season of LGBTI gatherings in Sarajevo Open Centre. Just as Pitchwise, a feminist festival, organized by our sister organization Foundation CURE, had finished, where we had the opportunity … Continued

Somebody said feminism: Women and right-wing

Sarajevo Open Centre and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will organize 6 lectures in 2016, which will cover the following topics: Antifascist Women’s Front Archive BiH, ideology and language, challenges facing feminism today, digital feminism, the relationship between right wing, and feminism and reproductive rights.

New feminist struggle is being led on the internet

After the summer break, the fourth cycle of feminist lectures and discussions Soomebody said feminism? occasionally continued in the scope of the 11th edition of PitchWise, festival of women’s art and activism

Portal lgbt.ba changed its web domain to lgbti.ba

Dear friends and partners of the Sarajevo Open Centre, we want to inform you that the web portal lgbt.ba, that we had launched in 2013, changed its web domain by adding the letter i to its name, in order to, in that way, show its commitment and openness for the subjects that include intersex persons, … Continued