Hate Crime

Training for prosecutors and judges: Towards an Efficient Judicial Protection against human rights of LGBTI persons

The main goal of this training was to introduce the judiciary community with the promotion of anti-discrimination and criminal law and practice in the field of human rights...

Coalition for the fight against hate speech and hate crimes: Homophobia and transphobia have no limits – yesterday Zagreb, today Sarajevo

The Coalition for the fight against hate speech and hate crimes strongly condemns the homophobic attack on UDIK activists, and warns that the practice of not processing the...

Hate crimes in BiH in 2015: only one in eight perpetrators punished

On 16 November, the International Tolerance Day, 2016 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), on its website that serves for reporting on hate crime,...

Trans Day of Remembrance – brutally stopped lives

We are standing with our trans * community, especially we stand for those whose voice cannot be heard. It is our duty to do so every day, and not only on 20th November, when some...

A successful completion of the Train the Trainer program for police officers of Cantonal MoI’s and the Police Academy representatives of the Federation of BiH

This year, a group of police officers and representatives of FBiH Police Academy has passed the Train the Trainer program, with the objective to enable their holding of permanent...

Cooperation with the law enforcement institutions on Federal and State level has started

Sarajevo Open Centre, in cooperation with the Gender Centre of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held a two-day training on the 6th and 7th of October 2016, for...