On behalf of the 150 civil society organizations in BiH, today in Sarajevo TRIAL, MyRight and Justice Network presented some of the key recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations. This relatively new instrument of the United Nations considers and assesses the state of human rights in all countries.
Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, in March of this year, before the International Women’s Day, starts a new round of lectures and feminist discussions Somebody said feminism?
Festival was visited by more than 400 people from across the country and the region, as well as representatives of the diplomatic community in our country, and not a single incident occurred.
Aida Obuća was born in 1975. She is a lawyer and one of the few women in Bosnia and Herzegovina that perform a very important and responsible role – she is the president of the Assembly of Bosnia-Podrinje Canton.
The Embassy of Sweden today signed an agreement with Sarajevo Open Centre in support of the organization’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017. Sarajevo Open Centre has the last years taken on a leading role in the struggle for human rights in BiH, with a special focus on LGBT and women’s rights.
From January 30th until February 1st, Sarajevo Open Centre is organising and hosting the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival was organised for the first time six years ago in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics.
INFOHOUSE Association, in cooperation with the Sarajevo Open Centre and CURE Foundation, on Tuesday, 27 January 2015, starting at 11:00 am in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (press room 3/2), are organizing a press conference entitled: Does size matter? – 40% of women in the structures of government.
From: BHRT.ba INFOHOUSE Association, Sarajevo Open Centre and CURE Foundation, memeber organizations of the Women’s Network BiH, have today presented the results of monitoring of the general elections 2014, in terms of women’s political participation. Politicians who will soon perform the public functions in Bosnia and Herzegovina should allow women to participate in government, said … Continued
This is a comment of the report that was the result of the research of the Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI). The report deals with the issue of abortion in Croatia.
Association for Language and Culture Linguists (Udruženje za jezik i kulturu Lingvisti) and Sarajevo Open Centre, have sent today a letter to the University of Sarajevo with a request for the adoption of regulations and legislation that would introduce gender-sensitive language in official communication.