Steadfast, committed leadership and visible equality trailblazers are necessary ingredients for advancing LGBTI equality according to the latest Rainbow Europe package, released today (Sunday, 10 May 2015) by ILGA-Europe. Our 2015 Rainbow Map, Annual Review and brand new Rainbow Europe web module all showcase the power that committed leadership to LGBTI rights can wield. Launched … Continued
On 17th May we want to remind public of the importance of respecting human rights, including those of lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans * people, who continue to face discrimination and violence.
SARAJEVO OPEN CENTRE’S IDAHOT (INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA) PROGRAMME, MAY – JUNE 2015 Since 2005, May 17 has been marked as the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. This day is marked in more than 130 countries in the world, and is officially recognized by many countries, including European Union Parliament. On May … Continued
In addition to advocacy activities and regular implementation of trainings for civil society organizations and public institutions, Sarajevo Open Centre, continues to organize, twice a month gatherings for the LGBT community.
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.
In the past two years, Sarajevo Open Centre has organized individual trainings, and participated in the program of permanent education for police officers in the community in order to educate them on hate crimes issues, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sarajevo Canton.
Vladana Vasić, Saša Gavrić, Emina Bošnjak
Pink Report. Annual Report on the State of the Human Rights of LGBT People in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014
School will take place in Sarajevo from 13th to 15th of March 2015.
Deadline for registration to school is 1st March of 2015.
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.
From January 30th until February 1st, Sarajevo Open Centre is organising and hosting the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival was organised for the first time six years ago in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics.