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Short bios of participants of the Equality Academy

From 22 to 24 May this year in Sarajevo, the first of five three-day modules of the Equality Academy will be held. By launching the Equality Academy, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre are trying to make a new platform for political leadership and space for joint action of representatives, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations, and below you can read short biographies of participants of our Academy.

We can be free on the Internet, but the Internet itself is not free

The second lecture within the third round of lectures and feminist discussions Somebody said feminism? addressed cyber feminism, with lecturers being Belma Kučukalić and Valentina Pellizzer (OneWorldPlatform / Web portal zenskaposla.ba). In this lecture titled 50 shades cyber feminism: Feminist principles of the Internet, Valentina and Belma explained how important the presence of girls and women is in ICT, referring to specific cases that show how the internet can be a place of freedom, but also of oppression.

Alternative Progress Report 2015 is being drafted!

Initiative for monitoring of European integration of BiH, which is coordinated by Sarajevo Open Centre, is an informal coalition of civil society organizations that will, by the end of May, publish Alternative report on the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina for 2015.