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).

Diskriminacija.ba, January 30, 2014 – LGBT Community and Education

Edina Nurikić, foto: diskriminacija.ba U nastavku serijala govorimo o LGBT zajednici i obrazovanju u BiH – na koji način se različitoste seksualnosti i identiteti...

2nd Hate Speech Course

Youth Initiative for Human Rights in BiH (YIHR BiH) will organize 2nd Hate Speech Crash Course in the premises of Center for Cultural and Media Decontamination (Centar za kulturnu...

Hate crime: why do we need a better law?

Coalition for combat against hate speech and hate crime continues its lobbying for the adoption of the amendments to the Criminal Code of FBiH. On this occasion, Assotiation for...

Diskriminacija.ba, December 15, 2013 – Human Rights Outside!

Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava obilježava se 10. decembra na dan potpisivanja Univerzalne deklaracije o ljudskim pravima 1948. godine kada je priznato pravo svih ljudi na...

More Hate Speech in the BH Public Sphere

The Coalition for Combat Against Hate Speech and Hate Crime strongly condemns new instances of hate crime in the public arena as well the inactivity of the responsible...

Dw.de, December 4th 2013. – Why LGBT persons in B&H don’t report violence?

Uprkos dobrom zakonskom okviru, nasilje i diskriminacija nad LGBT osobama u BiH se još ne kažnjava na sudovima. Dok je zakon samo mrtvo slovo na papiru, isto je kao i da ne...