Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tuzla Open Center — TOC — Founded on 25 February 2013 TOC is an independent, non-political and non-profit organization promoting active citizenship through political education and advocating for human rights of marginalized groups through equality policies. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a party to the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Political Participation and Representation According to SOC the majority of political parties and their representatives avoid engaging with issues relating to LGBTI rights.
The 1995 General Framework Agreement for Peace the Dayton Accords provides for a democratic republic with a bicameral parliament but assigns many governmental functions to the two entities. However, I see these positive steps still as isolated activities, and more should be done to strengthen impact of these actions in the practice, namely in terms of joint work on raising public awareness and diminishing stereotypes against the LGBT community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In reality, however, those rights are almost never successfully implemented. For example, Zagorac said, BiH was one of the first countries to ratify the 2011 Istanbul Convention on combating domestic violence and gender-based violence.
Gays in Bosnia still living life in the closet - Civil Rights Defenders expects from local authorities to investigate the illegitimate decision-making process for allowing peaceful assemblies, and find adequate solutions and provide alternative date for the assembly.
The situation in that way is not great. There is lots of discrimination here. The next most popular answer, at 11 percent, was to stop communicating with that child. The same poll showed these attitudes echoed in other Western Balkans countries with respondents in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia giving the same answers. HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE Ivan said secrecy overshadows daily activities for LGBTI people in Bosnia. The NDI Democracy survey found three out of four LGBTI people in the Balkans had faced psychological abuse and verbal harassment, one out of four suffered physical violence, and half had faced discrimination at school, at work, or elsewhere. A group of around 12 masked men interrupted the event, injuring three people. There have, so far, been no criminal prosecutions. Although the Dayton Peace accord, signed 20 years ago this month, succeeded in ending the 1992-95 Bosnia war, it divided the former Yugoslav republic into two autonomous regions along ethnic lines - the Serb Republic and Bosniak-Croat Federation. This complex political system, based on ethnic and regional quotas, has hampered the formation of a stable national government and left Bosnia bottom of the pack of Western Balkan states seeking EU membership. This was also highlighted in a report by U.