Sarajevo Open Centre, INFOHOUSE and CURE Foundation, tomorrow, on 27 February 2015 at 11.30 am, are organizing the press conference in front of the Assembly of Sarajevo Canton where they will try to hand-deliver the request for compliance with the Gender Equality Law when appointing the Ministers, to the Chairman of the Government of the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, which was also submitted in writing yesterday.
On yesterday’s assembly meeting of the representatives of Zenica-Doboj Canton (February 24, 2015), after prompt reaction of Center for Legal Assistance for Women and Infoteka from Zenica and Sarajevo Open Centre from Sarajevo, it was stated that the proposal for the position of Ministers in the government of this canton, that was submitted by Miralem … Continued
As a part of the project „Fighting Hate Crime in BiH“, financed by Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the OSCE in Vienna and implemented by Sarajevo Open Centre in partnership with OSCE Mission in BiH, education was held for apprentices of prosecutor’s offices and courts on the subject of bias motivated crimes.
Edita Miftari (2015) Political participation of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the participation of women on party lists and the final results of the general elections 2014. Sarajevo: Foundation CURE, Sarajevo Open Centre Publication is available in B/H/S languages only.
Fedra Idžaković (2015) Map of women’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo: CURE Foundation, Sarajevo Open Centre Publication available in B/H/S languages only.
Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, shortly before International Women’s Day, opens the third cycle of Somebody said feminism? with lectures and feminist discussions titled Cosmo-politics: dietary feminism of women’s magazines which will be held on Thursday 05 March at the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, starting from 6pm. The lecturer will be Nenad Veličković.
After a successfully realized LGBT Human Rights School in October 2014, Sarajevo Open Center and Banjaluka Association of Queer Activists are organizing a second LGBT school of Human Rights for students and graduates of law faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina which will be held in Banja Luka.
Sarajevo Open Centre, starting from 2015, will continue women’s studies program “Žarana Papić“. This program was launched in 1998 by the Association Žene ženama as a first interdisciplinary study program about women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Žarana Papić School of Feminism is two-semester academic-activist educational program.
School will take place in Sarajevo from 13th to 15th of March 2015.
Deadline for registration to school is 1st March of 2015.
This training is part of a series of trainings and educations which will be continued in the upcoming two years period, in order to strengthen capacity and knowledge of people who work in institutions of law enforcement, in courts and prosecutions, but also of representatives of civil sector.