Tag: soc

Revolutionary play SEVEN in Sarajevo on 26 November 2015

November 18, 2015

Sarajevo Open Centre and Medica Zenica announce the scene reading of the revolutionary documentary play SEVEN in Sarajevo.

SEVEN is a revolutionary documentary play based on the interviews with seven women’s rights activists, from all the parts of the world, and whose hard life stories and struggles represent an incredible source of inspiration. The women are: Ferida Azizi (Afganistan), Inez Mccormack (North Ireland), Marina Pisklakova-Parker (Russia), Annabella de Leon (Guatemala), Mukhtar Mai (Pakistan), Mu Sochua (Cambodia) and Hafsat Abiola (Nigeria).

Meet the ensemble of SEVEN: Tanja Miletić Oručević, the director of the scene reading of the play SEVEN

November 18, 2015

Tanja Miletić Oručević is a director, pedagogue in the field of the scene arts, translator and an activist. She holds MA from the Theatre Academy in Krakow, Poland, and a PhD from the Academy in Brno, Czech Republic

Meet the ensemble of SEVEN: Dennis Gratz carries over the story of Inez Mccormack

November 18, 2015

Dennis Gratz: “The function I am holding exists exactly in order for us MPs to raise awareness of the public on violence against women and similar problems.”

The life of LGBT people in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not simple

November 16, 2015

Ignorance gives birth to discrimination, that is the conclusion of the research that was conducted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in June and July this year, and it relates to the LGBTI issues in six countries of the Western Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro).

Tuzla: There cannot be room for prejudice in the professional police work”

October 20, 2015

As a part of the project „Fighting Hate Crime in BiH“, financed by the 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, a training was held for police officers of MoI’s of: Tuzlanski, Posavski and Bosansko-podrinjski Canton on the 15th of October in Tuzla.

Video: Prejudices and stereotypes

October 14, 2015

The truth is that every one of us said or thought about something that represents a stereotype or even a prejudice.

Events for LGBT community: A place for encouragement and socializing with LGBT community

August 14, 2015

During May, June and July there were 130 people in total who came and visited us, and 30 of them were with us for the first time.

Info session: Sensitization of the first line of protection for LGBT people from violence in the Republika Srpska

May 20, 2015

In front of the Ministry of Interior of the Republika Srpska will speak Chief of Police Education, Mile Šikman, in front of the Ombudsman Institution will speak Predrag Raosavljević, and in front of the Banja Luka Association of queer activists, Jasenko Suljetovića.

Regional Conferences Out-Laws: Legal Recognition Of Same-Sex Couples’ Life Unions And Transgender Dialogue: Trans* As A Question Of Politics and Health

May 20, 2015

Conferences Out-Laws: Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples’ Life Unions and Transgender Dialogue– Trans* as a question of politics and health, aim to open the dialogue on human rights and equality of LGBT people in BH society. Attached we are sending you agendas of these conferences.

Terry Reintke: Civil Society Must be Engaged in the New BiH Ombudspersons Selection Process

May 14, 2015

Terry Reintke, the European Parliament MP, and the member of Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, visited Sarajevo yesterday.