BalkanThemes Volume 1: Issue 3 – LGBT Rights

February 3rd, 2015

The third issue of BalkanThemes explores the work of organizations promoting LGBT-friendly dialogue in the Balkans, the struggle of three LGBT individuals in a conservative society and the state of LGBT rights across the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Albania Croatia Events Film Inequality LGBTQ Macedonia Montenegro NGO Slovenia

Youth Academy “State of Peace”: The Vital Need for Unity in Peacebuilding

Religious leaders from four different religions—located within just 400 meters of one another in Sarajevo, often called the "European Jerusalem"—delivered a unified message to participants of the youth academy “State of Peace” - that peace can only be built together.

August 13th, 2025

Balkan Diskurs

After More Than 30 Years, Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence Are Still Waiting for a Memorial

There is still no memorial for survivors of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), despite the significance it would hold for survivors as a recognition of their suffering, courage, and dignity, but also as a symbol of remembrance of the evils of war.

May 11th, 2026

Adelisa Mašić | Nina Kurt