Prof. Ph.D. Zilka Spahić Šiljak, director of the TPO Foundation, participated on November 30th 2023 at the seminar “Challenges of femicide: Study of arguments for the specific criminal offense of femicide in the legal framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” The ELSA Sarajevo team, together with project coordinators Hana Kurtović and Hana Kunić, organized a regional event attended by 145+ participants from BiH, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Austria. During the online seminar, the participants had the opportunity to listen to presentations by eminent lecturers: prof.  Zilka Spahić Šiljak Ph.D., […]

In the period from October 26th to November 23rd, 2023, the TPO Foundation was part of the Regional Data Challenge initiated by the Association Sigurna mjesta from Zagreb. The safecity application was presented during online sessions with the aim of encouraging anonymous reporting of street harassment. The Safecity application originated in India in 2012, created by Elsa Marie D’Silva. Since then, the application has expanded worldwide, translated, and localized by representatives of the Association, Ivana Šalinović and her colleagues. They undertook the translation due to the lack of tools for[…]

As part of the UNIGEM project, during the preparation period for the 16 Days of Activism, a two-day training on gender equality topics using the P4C method – Critical Thinking was held for teachers of the Second Gymnasium. The training was conducted by Elmana Cerić, a teacher from the Second Gymnasium in Sarajevo. In the period from November 6 – 7, 2023, the first training module P4C was held for the teaching staff of Second Gymnasium Sarajevo. During the two-day training, the participants were introduced to the P4C approach as[…]

On 21.09. in Tirana professor Zilka Spahić Šiljak Ph.D presented the results of research on the link between gender equality and social cohesion of young people in the Balkans, which was conducted by young researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and North Macedonia and Albania. Young people in the Western Balkans have identified toxic masculinity, gender stereotypes, hate speech, and media portrayal of traditional gender roles as factors that increase the risk of violence, especially violence against women, which is considered the most widespread form of violence in the[…]

Summer volleyball camp MOVEMENT (Mountain volleyball, education and mentorship camp) – unification through sport was held in the period from 21st until 23rd of July at the EKO-FIS Vlašić site. After three days of intense sports socializing, games, education and conversation, the first summer volleyball camp in Vlašić for girls and boys attending volleyball clubs Travnik and Victor Novi Travnik, organized by the representative office of the non-governmental organization DTCare, was successfully finished. During three days of socializing, the participants worked on improving communication, team spirit, but also sensitive topics[…]

The workshops were designed to provoke assumptions about the concepts of gender and gender identities because most teachers claim to know what these terms represent, yet most are not familiar with the key theoretical frameworks and research on these topics. Gender theories, concepts of masculinity and femininity, and toxic masculinity were presented based on the study “The Man’s Box,” which offers a research framework for this topic that is rarely explored in the Balkans. In the second part of the workshop, participants conducted testing on masculinity and femininity in groups,[…]