What can we expect from the second module of the Equality Academy 2016?
The Second module, which is named Feminism for Everyone will take place in Banjaluka from 18-20 March
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BH Council of Ministers will mark IDAHOT and Coming Out Day from 2017 on
Council of Ministers of BiH has adopted its Important dates in the field of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina marking programme. Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of BiH was appointed to realise this Programme in the appropriate way and in cooperation with other relevant institutions. You can finf this Programme in BCS in … Continued
Government of the Federation of BiH has included the rights of LGBT people in their action plans
In 2015 the Government of Republika Srpska adopted the Annual Operational Plan for Implementation of the Gender Action Plan, which, among other things, includes provisions for promotion and protection of LGBT persons. The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted their Operational Plan in 2016. On 04.03.2016 the Government of the Federation of … Continued
Training for members of political parties from BiH about rights of LGBT persons
Sarajevo Open Centre is organizing a training for members of political parties. During the training, regional and local experts will present current state of human rights of LGBT persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on good regional practices and politics which are improving the position of this marginalized group. The training will be held on … Continued
How did we mark the International Women’s Day?
Different activities were organized in order to mark International Women’s Day in B&H (street activism, media reports, sessions in Parliaments in cooperation with Committees for Gender Equality and civil society organizations, reading of the play SEVEN…).
BHRT: TV Show Tema dana – Safe Houses in FBiH, 07.03.2016.
On TV Show Tema dana on BHRT channel we talked about the amendments to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence in FBiH. Through these proposed amendments safe houses that care for women victims of domestic violence would become institutions, rather than being managed by women’s civil society organization. Sabiha Husić, Amela Bašić-Tomić, Jasmina Mujezinović and Saša Gavrić addressed this topic from the perspective of civil society members.
The Citizens’ Response to Hate Crime and Homophobic Violence
Art Kriterion Cinema in Sarajevo is a place that promotes independent art, but also a space where many LGBT art events take place. It has been a target of another attack spurred by homophobia, following the attack on the participants in the Merlinka Festival in February 2014. On Friday, 4 March 2016, there was a … Continued
Attack in Art Cinema Kriterion: Prosecutor’s Office Must Urgently Prosecute Homophobic Attacks
On Friday night, March 4, 2016, staff and the visitors of Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo were victims of a homophobic attack. Four young men stormed into Kriterion yelling homophobic slurs, threatening with violence, throwing bottles, ashtrays, and glasses. They also threatened to throw a bomb in case the members of Kriterion’s staff of call … Continued
Announcement of the lecture and feminist discussion: The Antifascist Front of Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Report on execution of the first Five-year plan
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, feminist critique of political economy, the relationship between religion and feminism and reproductive rights.
It is high time for the Parliament of FBiH’s House of Peoples to adopt the Law on amendments to the Criminal Code of FBiH
Federation of BiH has been urged to adopt regulation to combat hate crimes since 2010, when Republika Srpska and Brčko District adopted it, and it is high time to do so.