Responsible journalism: LGBT persons and media Sarajevo Open Centre invites all students of journalism and young journalists who have graduated in last three years and who are from Bosnia and Herzegovina to participate in school. School will be held from 24th to 26th of February 2016. Purpose of this school is affirmation of rights of … Continued
On the 22nd January the Women United Foundation, Medica Zenica and the Sarajevo Open Centre organized a working meeting in Sarajevo, for the representatives of various NGOs, the members of the Commission for Gender Equality of the House of Representatives of Parliament FBiH and the members of the Club of Women Parliamentarians in the House … Continued
The Council of Minister – the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina – adopted on its 36th Session (December 23th 2015) a draft law with amendments to the Anti-discrimination law. The draft law can be found on the following link. If the law is adopted by the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Bosnia and Herzegovina will become the … Continued
Radenko Jotanović, Mirna Alibegović, Darko Radić i Boris Krešić Legal regulation of Same-Sex Unions in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar. Publication available only in B/C/S.
On 16th and 17th November 2015 within the project Utilizing European Integration Processes for the Advancement of LGBT Rights in the Western Balkans ILGA Europe organized EU study visit in Brussels. The study visit event was attended by LGBTI activists/project partners from FYR of Macedonia (Subversive Front), Kosovo (Center for Equality and Liberty), Serbia (Labris) … Continued
Political parties after the General Elections in 2014 have concluded that the Electoral Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be amended in order to abolish existing anomalies. The BiH Parliamentary Assembly appointed in 2015 an inter-ressort working group for the revision of the electoral legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The working group started its activities … Continued
Many processes have begun. Some of them also in the wrong direction. Although the results are not immediately visible, changes from 2015 give us hope that 2016 will be the year of real change.
These are the changes and events that await us in this year.
On the suggestion of Sarajevo Open Centre and Agency for Gender Equality of BiH, BiH Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Gender Equality sent into the parliamentary procedure the Draft of Amendments to the Law on the Council of Ministers. These amendments predicts that the Council of Ministers must be composed by at least 40 percent of … Continued
By: Saša Gavrić, Sarajevo Open Centre The year 2015 has brought us lot of changes. At the political level, what no one expected has happened: The Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU entered into force and the European Union has offered a continuation of the integration process although BiH did not provide necessary accomplishments. … Continued
After successful realization of the Equality Academy in 2015, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre are proud to announce a public call for participation on the second generation of the Equality Academy – platform for political leadership and space for joint actions of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations.