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).

Announcement of the Training for apprentices of Criminal Departments within Courts and Prosecutions on subject: “Hate crimes”

This training is part of a series of trainings and educations which will be continued in the upcoming two years period, in order to strengthen capacity and knowledge of people who...

BH Dani: Discriminations starts in political parties

Lecture Somebody said feminism? Topic of the lecture was: Discriminations starts in political parties. Series of feminist lectures Somebody said Feminism?, which magazine BH...

Gender identity must not be a reason for discrimination and violence

The international day of the Remembrance of the trans* people who died is marked on this day-20th November. Today we should remember the ones who lost their lives because of the...

Info session: How trans * people live in Croatia?

Invitation for journalists to participate on the Info session: How trans * people living in Croatia? 12/11/2014. at 10: 30h, Medicentar...

Depathologisation of ‘gender incongruence’ in the International Classification of Diseases

In 1990, World Health Organization has included the diagnosis of "gender incongruence" in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). On the occasion of 18th of October,...

BH Dani – Crossing the Borders Between Male and Female

U kovanici LGBT, slovo T označava trans* osobe čiji spol ne odgovara rodu kojeg oni/e osjećaju. Često je za njih rezervirano najviše stigme, pogotovo u patrijarhalnom...