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).

Criminalisation of hate crimes under the Criminal code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vladana Vasić (author): Criminalisation of hate crimes under the Criminal code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, Heinrich Boell...

Training: Police Officers of HNK Ready to implement of Gained Knowledge on Hate Crimes

As a part of the project „Fighting Hate Crime in BiH“, financed by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the OSCE in Vienna and implemented by Sarajevo...

Thematic Session on Hate Crime Regulation in FBiH Parliament is Needed

Coalition for Combat against Hate Speech and Hate Crime has sent a proposition to the Parliament of FBiH House of Representatives’ Commission for Protection of Human Rights and...

2012-2014: 30 Documented Discrimination Cases on Grounds of SOGI, Real Numbers Much Higher

Sarajevo Open Centre replied to the BiH Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees on May 27, 2015, and submitted statistical data on the discrimination cases on the grounds of sexual...

BiH Parliament: The Special Report on the State of the Rights of LGBT People in BiH

BiH Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees will begin the process of introducing the legislative amendments to the BiH Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, and that the...

Regional Conferences Out-Laws: Legal Recognition Of Same-Sex Couples’ Life Unions And Transgender Dialogue: Trans* As A Question Of Politics and Health

Conferences Out-Laws: Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples’ Life Unions and Transgender Dialogue– Trans* as a question of politics and health, aim to open the dialogue on...