International Film Festival „Merlinka“ that was first organized in Belgrade back in 2009, began and continued as a film festival that promotes films with gay, lesbian and transgender topics, that make it difficult to reach the local audience. The Festival’s name Merlinka commemorates Vjeran Miladinovic Merlinka, trans * person who was brutally killed in 2003 … Continued
Babić Ana is a member of SBB BiH. She is the President of the Assembly of Canton Sarajevo and a Delegate in the House of Peoples in the Parliament FBiH. Berjan Vinka is the President of the Women’s Collective of the Municipal Board of SDS Istočna Ilidža. She is a representative in the Municipal Assembly … Continued
While thinking about applying for this year’s School of Feminism, you can read what the last year’s students have told us about the School, and also check out the photo gallery – from the opening ceremony, through the lectures and socializing over the six months, through the protest action in front of the Parliament of … Continued
By initiating the Equality Academy, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre have created a new platform for political leadership and a space for joint action of Members/representatives in the parliaments in B&H, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations.
In the Western Balkans, the human rights of LGBT people are violated on a daily basis. One reason for this situation is that the ruling authorities have not opted for the creation and / or enhancement of institutional and legal elements that would protect LGBT rights.
Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (http://www.fes.ba/ba/ppocetna-strana.html), opens the fourth cycle of lectures and feminist discussions Somebody said feminism?! that will last from March until November 2016. The fourth cycle will include six lectures and discussions, and the subject matters will be related to the archive of the Women’s Antifascist Front B&H, ideology and language, the challenges of the associative margin activism, the feminist critique of the political economy, the relation between religion and feminism, as well as to the women’s reproductive rights.
Sarajevo Open Centre, Medica Zenica, the Foundation for Local Democracy Sarajevo, Vive žene Tuzla, Žena BiH Mostar, Žene s Une Bihać and Žene Ženama (Women for Women) Sarajevo filed a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights to investigate the systematic violations of the Law on Combating Domestic Violence in the Federation … Continued
Sarajevo Open Centre announces the Public call for the enrolment of the second generation of students in the Žarana Papić School of Feminism.
In 2016
This was the best Coming out workshop and I’ve been on each and every since 2011.
The decision of the HJPC prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols is not in accordance with the Constitution of BiH. In the past few days the information that the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH decided to ban wearing of religious symbols to the employees provoked negative reactions. This decision in its core contains … Continued