News

13/05/2014
New portal lgbt.ba is now online!

The web platform lgbt-prava.ba is changing its name to lgbt.ba after more than a year and is thus becoming the foremost BiH LGBT info portal, a virtual space for the public and...

08/05/2014
New Series of Somebody Said Feminism? Lectures Starts Soon

Sarajevo Open Centre, with the help of our partners Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bosnia and Herzegovina is starting the second round of our lecture series Somebody Said Feminism?,...

07/05/2014
Discussion: Homophobia and BH Media – “BH Pilots Were Kissing in the Parking Lot!?”

In BiH, every third LGBT person suffers some kind of discrimination, and it goes unreported in 93.8% of cases. 94.6% of LGBT people have been the victims of physical or verbal...

06/05/2014
A Kiss is not a Scandal – Events on the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

On May 17th, 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from the list of internationally classified illnesses and, in so doing, confirmed the findings of the...

05/05/2014
Human Rights Finally Topic of the EU-BiH Structured Dialogue

After taking part in the seminar on March 7, 2014 and sending the open letter to the BH Council of Ministers, the BH Directorate for European Integration, the EU Delegation in BiH...

29/04/2014
MoI of Canton Sarajevo designated contact persons to work with LGBT people

Sarajevo Open Centre has received a memo from the Ministry of the Interior of Canton Sarajevo regarding the establishment of a position of contact persons, police officers, to...