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Feminist interpretation of social phenomena

Authors: Aida Spahić, Amira Hasanović, Bojana Vasić, Dajana Cvjetković, Dalila Mirović, Delila Hasanbegović, Elma Čavčić, Izudin Karić, Jasmina Čaušević, Maida Salkanović, Maida Zagorac, Marina Veličković, Melisa Tolja Mešić, Mersiha Jašarević, Selma Mustačević, Tanja Grabovac Feminist interpretation of social phenomena Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar (2015) Publication available on BCS language.

Meet the ensemble of SEVEN: Alma Kratina carries over the story of Mukhtar Mai

Alma Kratina was born in 1966. She graduated from the Veterinary Faculty in Sarajevo. She specialised in veterinary practice. She founded and chaired the Association “Dalija” in Zenica, founded with the aim of improving the status of women with a low material status, through the projects of empowerment and education.

Alma Kratina: “Everyone has their part of civil and human responsibility in the struggle against the gender based violence.“

Programme of the Sarajevo Open Centre on the Occasion of “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” Campaign and 10th of December – The International Human Rights Day

Over the past twenty four years, the global campaign on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence was dedicated to public advocacy and coordinated activities that support ending gender based-violence on local and international level. The Campaign was launched on the first Institute for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991 at Rutgers University Dates, 25th of … Continued

Revolutionary play SEVEN in Sarajevo on 26 November 2015

Sarajevo Open Centre and Medica Zenica announce the scene reading of the revolutionary documentary play SEVEN in Sarajevo.

SEVEN is a revolutionary documentary play based on the interviews with seven women’s rights activists, from all the parts of the world, and whose hard life stories and struggles represent an incredible source of inspiration. The women are: Ferida Azizi (Afganistan), Inez Mccormack (North Ireland), Marina Pisklakova-Parker (Russia), Annabella de Leon (Guatemala), Mukhtar Mai (Pakistan), Mu Sochua (Cambodia) and Hafsat Abiola (Nigeria).

The life of LGBT people in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not simple

Ignorance gives birth to discrimination, that is the conclusion of the research that was conducted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in June and July this year, and it relates to the LGBTI issues in six countries of the Western Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro).

Announcement of the lectures and feminist discussions: Queer theory and classical Yugoslavian film

Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, continues with the lectures within the third cycle of lectures and feminist discussions Someone said feminism. The seventh lecture, titled Queer theory and classical Yugoslavian film will be held on Friday, 20 November this year at the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, starting from 6 P.M. The lecturer will be Nebojša Jovanović, who studies the Yugoslavian film in the light of the feminist movie theory.

Overview of the lectures at the Žarana Papić School of Feminism: 7 November 2015

On Saturday, 07/11/2015 the lectures of Module 3 (Culture and Ideology) and of Module 4 (Feminist ethical and political theory) took place, and were led by Nebojša Jovanović, who holds a PhD in gender studies, and Damir Banović, MA of Law and teaching assistant at the University of Sarajevo Law Faculty.