Women’s Rights

Sarajevo Open Centre works on raising awareness on the importance of the implementation of ratified international documents, as well as the existing national regulations related to the women’s political participation, security and decision-making process through monitoring, education, informing and discussions with the actors of the process.

Preview of the first lectures at Žarana Papić School of Feminism

On Saturday 11 April, from 10am to 16pm, held the first lecture in the framework of two modules, which we heard in the first semester of the Feminist School Žarana Papic....

Annual Report on the State of Women’s Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014

Dalila Mirović, Inela Hadžić, Edita Miftari (2015) Annual Report on the State of Women’s Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014 (PDF,...

SOC: Gender equality must be a priority of the new Council of Ministers of BiH

Confirmation of the appointment of the Council of Ministers and the FBiH Government has shown a lack of commitment of political parties to gender issues. The Government of FBiH...

Bosnia Daily: Saša Gavrić: Governments without equal participation of women are illegitimate and illegal

After last year’s elections, Sarajevo Open Centre in cooperation with the Women’s Network of BiH began with advocacy activities towards achieving the target of 40% of women in...

Lecture and discussion: 50 shades of of cyberfeminism: Feminist principles of the Internet

Sarajevo Open Centre, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, continues with the third cycle of Somebody said feminism? The second lecture and feminist discussion is...

Submissions by Sarajevo Open Centre on the state of human rights of LGBT people and women’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina

During last week (March 23-27), Sarajevo Open Centre sumitted two written submissions to the European Union Delegation in BiH for the BiH 2014 Progress Report: on the state of the...