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23/02/2016
Program of the Sarajevo Open Centre for the International Women’s Day – 8 March 2016

The idea and the symbolism of 8th of March is linked to the beginning of industrialization and 1857 when the textile workers in New York organized themselves to draw attention to...

23/02/2016
The Lecture We Shouldn’t Miss – On Homosexuality in Yugoslavia

On our second gathering in SOC this year, with the LGBT community, this time we hosted Franko Dota, historian, doctoral student of modern and contemporary history at the Faculty...

23/02/2016
Bosnia Daily: Don’t Water Down the Existing Gender Quota, Increase It to 50%

The public was informed about the latest session of the inter-department work group for changes of the election legislation in BiH Unfortunately, a significant change was hidden...

23/02/2016
Do not abolish existing Gender Quota in the Electoral Law, increase it to 50%

On the initiative of Sarajevo Open Centre, Initiative for Monitoring BiH's European Integration, Women's Network of BiH, Initiative Women citizens for the constitutional reforms,...

18/02/2016
Queer Film Festival „Merlinka“ slowly taking over Bosnia and Herzegovina

International Film Festival „Merlinka“ that was first organized in Belgrade back in 2009, began and continued as a film festival that promotes films with gay, lesbian and...

18/02/2016
Meet the Participants of the Equality Academy 2016

Babić Ana is a member of SBB BiH. She is the President of the Assembly of Canton Sarajevo and a Delegate in the House of Peoples in the Parliament FBiH. Berjan Vinka is the...