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Added on: 07/15/2024

LGBT Pride and Euro 2024 Become Focus for Online Hate Speech

07/14/2024

The 22nd Istanbul Pride march set out from Bagdat Street in the city’s Kadikoy district instead of the previously announced start point, as Pride week organisers sought…

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Added on: 07/05/2024

Bosnian Serb Entity Strikes ‘Gender Identity’ From Draft Criminal Code

07/04/2024

The government of the majority-Serb entity that makes up half of Bosnia-Herzegovina has deleted the term “gender identity” in draft amendments to the region’s Criminal Code, indicating…

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Added on: 10/08/2023

Normalising Extremism: How Far-Right Narratives Spread in the Balkans

10/07/2023

Hate-filled comments about migrants, Roma people and the LGBT community. Praise for authoritarian regimes like Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Misogynistic and sexist abuse. Conspiracy theories about George Soros,…

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Added on: 05/12/2023

LGBT Watchdog Chides Balkan, Central Europe Countries for Rights Setbacks

05/11/2023

Europe’s leading LGBT rights organisation, ILGA-Europe has criticised Serbia and Turkey for their handling of LGBT community rights in its latest Rainbow Map and Index. The report says the…

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Added on: 03/20/2023

Bosnia: rights activists assaulted following LGBT event ban

03/19/2023

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia were assaulted late Saturday, hours after police banned an LGBT event planned there over the weekend,…

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Added on: 03/10/2023

Bosnia Women Rights Marchers Attacked in Banja Luka Over LGBT Flag

03/09/2023

Participants in the 12th annual women’s right protest on March 8 in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity,…

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Added on: 03/02/2023

LGBT rights in the Balkans: Assessing two decades of change and nationalist challenges

03/01/2023

Some progress has been made on strengthening LGBT rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia over the last two decades, in part due to the requirements…

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Added on: 03/01/2023

LGBT rights in the Balkans: Assessing two decades of change and nationalist challenges

02/28/2023

After a turbulent post-war period, the three largest countries of the former Yugoslavia – Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia – shifted toward greater democracy and Europeanisation in the…

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Added on: 10/14/2022

Bosnia Unveils LGBT Rights Strategy

10/12/2022

Bosnia and Herzegovina unveiled its first ever strategy to improve the rights and freedoms of LGBT people on Wednesday, a step towards bringing human rights protections in…

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Added on: 05/29/2022

Three landmark legal verdicts strengthen LGBTI rights in Southeast Europe

5/28/22

Courts in three Southeast European countries — Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia — have issued landmark rulings in cases concerning the rights of LGBTI people in…

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Added on: 05/03/2022

Bosnia’s LGBT Community Hails ‘Historic’ Ruling Against Discrimination, Hate.

05/02/2022

For all of Dina Bajraktarevic’s adult life, Bosnia-Herzegovina has had a law in place banning discrimination, including based on sexual orientation or gender identity. But the 25-year-old…

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Added on: 08/15/2021

Sarajevo’s Pride Parade Calls For More Rights for LGBT Community

8/14/21

Sarajevo’s second-ever Pride parade as well as a counter-protest organised by a hardliner Muslim political campaign group ended peacefully on Saturday. “Aware of discrimination, violence and hate…

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Added on: 08/11/2021

Bosnian Religious Group to Protest Against Sarajevo LGBT Pride

08/10/2021

Vjera Narod Drzava (Faith People State), a recently-founded Muslim political campaign group, has announced that it will stage an “anti-LGBTIQ” protest during the Sarajevo Pride parade on…

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Added on: 09/08/2020

TikTok is suppressing LGBT content in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

09/08/2020

Try searching for hashtags related to LGBT issues in countries like Russia, Bosnia, and Jordan on TikTok and you might find no results, even if you were…

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Added on: 08/11/2020

Bosnian Grand Mufti’s Office Distances Itself From Anti-Gay Remarks By Sarajevo Imam

08/10/2020

The office of the grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina has distanced itself from controversial remarks made by the imam of a mosque in Sarajevo that sparked outrage on…

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Added on: 08/08/2020

ISLAMIC COMMUNITY PRAISE THE PRIDE MARCH CANCELLATION

08/07/2020

The first-ever pride march in Bosnia and Herzegovina took place last September amidst heavy security. The second one was scheduled for August 23 2020, but was cancelled…

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Added on: 04/15/2020

Bosnia Takes First Step to Regulate Same-Sex Partnerships

04/15/2020

The government of one of Bosnia’s two entities – the Federation – has appointed a working group to draft legislation that would regulate the rights of same-sex…

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Added on: 09/09/2019

Bosnian capital holds first Pride parade amid counter protests and a backdrop of violent opposition

09/08/2019

Sarajevo has become the latest and last of the Balkan capitals to hold its first Pride parade as LGBT+ activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina marched amid a backdrop of protests and aggression…

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Added on: 09/08/2019

Hundreds march against Bosnia’s first LGBT pride parade

09/07/2019

Several hundred people marched in Bosnia’s capital Saturday to show their disapproval of a weekend LGBT pride parade that will be the country’s first. A pride parade…

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Added on: 08/24/2019

Bosnian party asks activists to cancel Gay Pride march

08/24/2019

A Bosnian political party on Friday urged LGBT activists to scrap plans for Sarajevo’s first ever pride parade next month, warning it could “escalate” political tensions and…

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Added on: 07/19/2019

How Sarajevo’s upcoming Pride march could turn the tables on ethnonationalism

07/18/2019

In June, many countries across the Western Balkans celebrated Pride Month with marches or parades — with one notable exception. Bosnia remains the only country in the…

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Added on: 04/02/2019

Bosnia Capital to Host First Pride Parade

04/01/2019

Bosnian human rights activists announced on Monday that Bosnia’s first-ever Pride Parade will take place in September in the capital, Sarajevo, and will gather members of the…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights

01/26/2019

As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday (January 27), PinkNews remembers all those in the LGBT+ community that were persecuted by the Nazis—and how the…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

To what Extent are Human Rights respected in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

01/20/2019

There was little visible progress on human rights during 2018. Authorities failed yet again to end structural and political discrimination against Jews, Roma, and other minorities. There…