{"id":7730,"date":"2015-01-29T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.ba\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2015-01-29T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:19:36","slug":"press-release-sweden-supports-local-ownership-in-the-struggle-for-lgbt-and-womens-rights-in-bih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/press-release-sweden-supports-local-ownership-in-the-struggle-for-lgbt-and-womens-rights-in-bih\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Sweden supports local ownership in the struggle for LGBT and women\u00b4s rights in BiH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft  \" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B8hAFQqCYAApr1o-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"B8hAFQqCYAApr1o\" \/>The Embassy of Sweden today signed an agreement with Sarajevo Open Centre in support of the organization\u2019s Strategic Plan 2014-2017. Sarajevo Open Centre has the last years taken on a leading role in the struggle for human rights in BiH, with a special focus on LGBT and women\u2019s rights.<\/p> <p>\u201cThe work of Sarajevo Open Centre is in line with Swedish core values on non-discrimination and every person\u2019s equal rights, including sexual rights. This principle is also underlined in Sweden\u2019s country strategy for Bosnia and Hercegovina,\u201d said Marie Bergstr\u00f6m, Counsellor at the Embassy of Sweden.<\/p> <p>Sweden is a strong advocate for EU-integration based on, among other, the principle of non-discrimination. Sarajevo Open Centre in BiH has taken on to monitor hate speech and discrimination, engage in human rights education of public officials and increase general awareness raising on LGBT and women\u00b4s rights in the effort of building a more unprejudiced society.<\/p> <p>\u201cThe Swedish contribution will allow Sarajevo Open Centre to develop its activities in order to reach an improved situation for human rights of LGBT people and women in the country\u201d said Sa\u0161a Gavri\u0107, Executive Director of Sarajevo Open Centre during the signing ceremony today.<\/p> <p>With the Swedish financial support, Sarajevo Open Centre will continue its work with police officers, prosecutors and judges for an increased knowledge on hate crime and discrimination. It will work focus on legal and policy initiatives in order to increase BiH authorities\u2019 responsiveness to guarantee human rights of LGBT people and women. Sarajevo Open Centre will also provide legal advice and counselling in cases where the authorities have failed to secure their rights.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Sweden today signed an agreement with Sarajevo Open Centre in support of the organization\u2019s Strategic Plan 2014-2017. Sarajevo Open Centre has the last years taken on a leading role in the struggle for human rights in BiH, with a special focus on LGBT and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,475,2],"tags":[106,1381],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy-for-lgbt-human-rights","category-human-rights-education","category-news","tag-sarajevo-open-centre","tag-the-embassy-of-sweden"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B8hAFQqCYAApr1o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}