socThe Sarajevo Open Center (SOC) is a non-governmental organization promoting active citizenship through political education and advocating for human rights of women and LGBT persons through equality policies. Among other activities, SOC is doing active publishing work. Their publications appear in several editions: Questioning; Human rights; Gender; BH politics. SOC has published several very interesting and relevant publications in the last year which deal with topics that can rarely be found within mainstream publishing houses. „Glossary of LGBT Culture“, „Textbook of LGBT Human Rights"“, „Discrimination – One Word, Many Faces“, „Someone said Feminism?“ – are just some publications which were published by SOC's team with the help of many other collaborators and are now offered to readers throughout the region of former Yugoslavia. The abovementioned publications are for free and can be found in PDF version on the following link: http://www.soc.ba/index.php/bs/publikacije


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  • Indicator

    It is what makes ubleha (See) appear to be not-so- ubleha.  Spoiled donors particularly insist upon a large number of precisely defined and measurable indicators (See) in an application (See) which reduce ubleha down to an abstract mathematical dimension. To prevent their abstractness being interpreted as an attempted cover-up, the sources and method of their verification (See) are listed.

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.