Training for the improvement of the capacity of police officers was held on 25th of March in Zenica. The goal of education was to present participants with cases of bias motivated crimes that could help them in their future work in prevention and fight against bias motivated crimes.
As a part of the project „Fighting Hate Crime in BiH“, financed by Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the OSCE in Vienna and implemented by Sarajevo Open Centre in partnership with OSCE Mission in BiH, education was held for apprentices of prosecutor’s offices and courts on the subject of bias motivated 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 work in institutions of law enforcement, in courts and prosecutions, but also of representatives of civil sector.
On behalf of the 150 civil society organizations in BiH, today in Sarajevo TRIAL, MyRight and Justice Network presented some of the key recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations. This relatively new instrument of the United Nations considers and assesses the state of human rights in all countries.
Author: Edina Sprečaković Can you imagine a situation in which graffiti reading Serbs Should be Hanged or Kill the Fags welcomed you beneath your window? Would you be bothered if you were not the one targeted by this graffiti? Can you put yourself in the skin of the person experiencing fear and uncertainty on a … Continued
After the failed attempt to introduce hate crime into the Criminal Law of FBiH in September and overturning of the draft in the House of Peoples, Coalition Against Hate Crime and Hate Speech seized a new opportunity to advocate for the legal regulation of the hate crime and hate speech by the Criminal Law of … Continued
As diskriminacija.ba reports, on Friday, October 11, 2013 OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europe (OWPSEE) Foundation and LGBTIQA organisation Okvir, presented seven digital (personal) stories and participatory “Queer Re:act” and “With love, your children” videos, made as part of the Participate 2015 project. In the middle of the presentation, a group of 5 minors tried to … Continued
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Hate crime is the nam for all criminal acts which have been committed because the perpetrator felt the intolerance towards the victim or victims because of their real or assumed sexual orientation and/or gender identity and their connection to/with LGBT persons. Persons who have decided they want to report a hate crime motivated by sexual … Continued
A regional workshop, organised by the People 2 People programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Office for Human and Minority Rights of Serbia and ILGA Europe will take place in Belgrade from 17th until 19th June, 2013. Working languages of the workshop will be: English, Serbian, Turkish and Albanian. The P2P Programme … Continued