News in English     | 14.02.2018. 13:12 |

Agreement on better protection of LGBT persons' rights through judicial training

FENA Nermina Omerbegović

SARAJEVO, February 14 (FENA) - The Center for Judicial and Prosecutorial Training of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sarajevo Open Center (SOC) today signed the Agreement on a higher level of protection of LGBT persons’ human rights through judicial training, which officially confirmed current good cooperation between these organizations in protecting the rights of this population.

The Agreement was signed by the SOC Executive Director Emina Bošnjak and Director of the Center for Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Arben Murtezić.

Mr. Murtezić pointed out that the cooperation with the Sarajevo Open Center has been formalized in order to open the Center towards NGOs and everyone who can help with specific knowledge.

He emphasized the importance of what the SOC was doing in the field of LGBT rights, adding that every individual must have all their rights protected, because, without the protection of individual rights, the group rights cannot be protected either.

Ms. Bošnjak believes that the signing of the Agreement is a formalization of the long-standing cooperation between the SOC and the Center for Judicial and Prosecutorial Training of the FBiH.

This formalization, as Ms. Bošnjak put it, sends a very clear message to the public and other institutions that there is room for cooperation and that the issue of work on the rights of LGBT persons has reached state institutions.

Ms. Bošnjak emphasizes that LGBT persons, like most BiH of the population, are poorly aware of their rights and legal mechanisms that protect those rights.

It is exactly this cooperation that, according to the SOC Executive Director, will enable the changes in the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination, that now explicitly protect LGBT persons, to reach the practitioners, the judges and prosecutors who will be able to follow these legal changes.

Ms. Bošnjak said that the agreement was the formalization of cooperation and at the same time the message to the LGBT community that the institutions were on their side, stating that it is well-known that there is a very low level of trust in the institutions among that population.

The goals of the agreement will be realized, inter alia, through mutual educator exchanges in educational activities, organization of joint bilateral activities, roundtables, conferences and seminars, mutual support in projects of research and development of legal theory and practice regarding the human rights of LGBT people and women, cooperation in the field of respect of the human rights of LGBT people and women with mutual capacities and joint publications and multimedia content creation.

(FENA)
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