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23/07/2015
Press conference: Alternative Progress Report 2015

Initiative for monitoring the European integration of BiH, as a coalition of thirty civil society organizations, organizes press conference on observations from the Alternative...

23/07/2015
Alternative Progress Report 2015: Political Criteria

Initiative for the monitoring of the European Union integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Alternative Progress Report 2015: Political Criteria Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre...

23/07/2015
For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights acknowledges right of same-sex couples to be legally recognised

It will provide LGBTI advocates in the remaining Council of Europe states who do not recognise same-sex couples with compelling arguments for protection....

21/07/2015
Parliament of FBiH and National Assembly of Republika Srpska Should Use Gender Sensitive Language

Last week Sarajevo Open Centre has sent a memo with the initiative to use gender sensitive language in the Parliament of FBiH and in National Assembly of Republika Srpska. This...

20/07/2015
Video: Coming out

Coming out, commonly used in the expression coming out of the closet, is a figure of speech, was also adopted and is now in common usage by LGBT communites and their allies in...

14/07/2015
EU Accession Process encourages the BH executive government to work on LGBT rights

Sarajevo Open Centre also stressed that most laws on state, entity and cantonal level do not include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected ground, which is a direct...