Advocacy

Sarajevo Open Centre as part of its program of work has been devoted to the advocacy of new public policies and the implementation of existing ones. Our work focuses on rights of LGBT person and women’s rights, but additionally we work on different human rights and general issues of importance to women and LGBT people.

As part of our advocacy work on the rights of LGBT persons in the period from 2015 to 2017 we will focus on:

  • Monitoring the rights of LGBT persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
  • Reporting on the rights of LGBT person, through Pink Report – Annual Report on the Rights of LGBT Persons, and the submissions and reports by domestic institutions and international bodies (ia EU Progress Report, the CEDAW, UPR);
  • legal regulation of the hate crimes and hate speech, and comprehensive introduction of the judiciary and the police on the same;
  • combating discrimination against LGBT people, through changes to existing policies and legislation, the adoption of new and their implementation;
  • legislation and bylaw the access of the rights of trans* persons;
  • legislation and bylaw the rights and obligations arising from the cohabitation of two people of the same sex (life partnership).

To University of Sarajevo’s Senate: Denounce Hate Speech and Discrimination towards LGBTI People!

We expect that the Senate will finally have a discussion on the students’ complaints related to hate speech towards LGBTI people, as it just did with the requests to protect 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...

Anti-discrimination Law of BiH – unofficial consolidated text

Here we publish the unofficial consolidated text of the Anti-discrimination Law of BiH, with the amendments that were adopted in July 2016....

Book presentation “Human Rights and Intersex People” in Sarajevo on 9th of November

Friedrich Ebert Foundation, BiH office, and Sarajevo Open Centre are organizing a presentation of the book "Human Rights and Intersex People" as well as the following discussion....

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...