By initiating the Equality Academy, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Sarajevo Open Centre have created a new platform for political leadership and a space for joint action of Members/Representatives in the parliaments in B&H, leaders of political parties and civil society organizations. This year’s Equality Academy started in February. The first module, which was called Policies … Continued
On the initiative of Sarajevo Open Centre the working meeting named „To improvement of Gender Equality in Canton Sarajevo?“ was held on Tuesday 5th of April 2016. Members of the Club of Women Representatives of Canton Sarajevo’s Assembly and representatives of civil society organizations, Sarajevo Open Centre, Women to Women and CURE Foundation, were present … Continued
The session of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of B&H is scheduled for Tuesday, 5 April 2016, and in addition to several other draft laws the three laws drafted with the input from Sarajevo Open Centre will have their first reading. These are the laws in question: the new Law on Human … Continued
On the falowing links below you can find Annual Report of the Sarajevo Open Centre for the 2015. 2015: THE YEAR OF NEW PARTNERSHIPS – Annual Report of the Sarajevo Open Centre 2015: GODINA NOVIH PARTNERSTAVA – Godišnji izvještaj o radu Sarajevskog otvorenog centra
Tuzla Open Centre and Sarajevo Open Centre, within Feminist March in Tuzla, are organizing promotion of the book “1995-2015: Women and Political Life in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Book authors are Marina Veličković, Arijana Aganović and Edita Miftari. This will we the fourth book promotion. Three promotions were held in December 2015 in Sarajevo, Zenica … Continued
At the ninth session of the Gender Equality Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina the Draft Proposal of the Framework Law on Treatment of Infertility by Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Law on the Changes and Amendments of the Electoral Law BiH were discussed. Of the nine members … Continued
Different activities were organized in order to mark International Women’s Day in B&H (street activism, media reports, sessions in Parliaments in cooperation with Committees for Gender Equality and civil society organizations, reading of the play SEVEN…).
On TV Show Tema dana on BHRT channel we talked about the amendments to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence in FBiH. Through these proposed amendments safe houses that care for women victims of domestic violence would become institutions, rather than being managed by women’s civil society organization. Sabiha Husić, Amela Bašić-Tomić, Jasmina Mujezinović and Saša Gavrić addressed this topic from the perspective of civil society members.
Art Kriterion Cinema in Sarajevo is a place that promotes independent art, but also a space where many LGBT art events take place. It has been a target of another attack spurred by homophobia, following the attack on the participants in the Merlinka Festival in February 2014. On Friday, 4 March 2016, there was a … Continued
Group of authors The Orange Report 2016 – Annual Report on the State of Women’s Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCa) Banja Luka