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

Long Journey Home: The Story of Fata Orlovic

After the horror of war and genocide in Bosnia, a widowed wife returned to her home in Konjevic Polje with her seven kids only to learn that a church had been built in her front yard. Her battle to have the church removed from her property is still ongoing more than 20 years later.

February 21st, 2018

Amela Orlović

Renovating the Sarajevo Bobsled Track: An Opportunity to Foster Olympic Values in Young People

The Olympic bobsled and luge track on Mount Trebević was once the most modern in the world—an example of a fast but safe track built on steep terrain.

June 8th, 2025

Mak Murvat