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Amendments to the Law on the sport for the first time included the equal participation of women and raised the question of gender-responsive budgeting

Bosnia and Herzegovina can be proud that this is the first time that the Law on Sport regulated the issue of equal participation of women in the Council for the sport, as well as the issue of gender responsive budgeting and the prohibition of discrimination on all grounds – including disability, age, sexual orientation and gender identity and sexual characteristics

SOMEBODY SAID FEMINISM and PitchWise festival: Digital feminism

Fourth Series of Lectures SOMEBODY SAID FEMINISM? March-November 2016 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 … Continued

Community events for LGBTI people you should not have missed

For the second year in a row, Sarajevo Open Centre continues to have regular meet ups with the LGBTI community mainly focused on Sarajevo region, but also open for LGBTI people and other LGBTI friendly people from other parts of the country. The series of events that have started last year continued in 2016, so … Continued

Human rights and intersex people

Translation on B/C/S language: Ljudska prava i interspolne osobe. Tematska publikacija koju objavljuje Komesar za ljudska prava Vijeća Evrope English version: Human rights and intersex people. Council of Europe, first edition April 2015, second edition September 2015, www.coe.int Sarajevo. Sarajevski otvoreni centar.

Open Call for participation at School of LGBTI activism

After a series of workshops with the LGBTI community and training for activists held last year, in 2016. Sarajevo Open Centre is starting a School of LGBTI Activism as a one-semester program designed for activists and those who want to get more engaged in the field of promotion and protection of the rights of LGBTI … Continued

BiH Alternative Report 2016: Political criteria

Sarajevo Open Centre is the coordinating organization of The Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH which made the fourth in a row Alternative Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina and its path towards the European Union membership. The report is a joint effort of dozens of individuals and organizations, whose common goal was to … Continued