Flashback Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993. Huge numbers of Muslim refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing began streaming into 17-year-oldHadzihalilovic's town of Zenica, about 50 miles north of Sarajevo, where they desperately sought food and shelter. Among them were women who...
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Why women need to write – Write ON Sisters, write on!
EVE ENSLER Sarajevo, September 11,2015 Why women need to write. when we write we exist we develop an alternative persona that is free we practice liberation we are seen we are known we take up space we give voice to what we know and don’t know we know writing...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: A peace that failed women
Activist Vildana Džekman became involved in women's human rights to challenge the hinders the Dayton agreement has led to for women's equal participation in society. Photo from feminist art festival Pitchwise. ”It has been a huge barrier to the...
10th Anniversary of the Festival of Women’s Art and Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
10th Anniversary of the Festival of Women’s Art and Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina PitchWise 2015 – PitchWise Re_Visited From 10th to 13nd of September 2015 in Sarajevo With great pleasure we invite you to our recognizable feminist...
Confession of a woman with disability
My name is Skorupan Šefika, I live in Sarajevo and I am the president, manager and player of the women's basketball team in wheelchair "Bambi". I have been a person with disability since 1993, when I was wounded by a grenade coming back from work. At the time of my...
CURE Foundation, Sarajevo Open Center and INFOHOUSE will hand-diliver a request for compliance with the Gender Equality Law
Sarajevo Open Centre, INFOHOUSE and CURE Foundation, will tomorrow, on 27 February 2015, hand-deliver the request for compliance with the Gender Equality Law when appointing the Ministers, to the Chairman of the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, which was also...