This report is an outcome of the Feasibility study: LGBTIQ community in BiH - position, projects and development, a project supported by the HIVOS / COC NL. As one of the starting projects of the Organization Q, Feasibility Study had for a goal to research the state of human rights of LGBTIQ population in BiH, including needs, problems, and recommendations.
The grounds of discrimination treated in this report are: sex, gender, sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
This report is based on analysis of 210 questionnaires as well as secondary data and/or other similar reports and research. Main themes featured here include a brief section on LGBTIQ activism and population in BiH, and sections on identity and non-identity, and social exclusion, discrimination and inequality.
First section explores the short chronological timeline and outline regarding BiH LGBTIQ activism and legislation. There is also some information about the LGBTIQ population in general and in BiH, their general state and attitude. The second section explores the right to identity and non-identity raising the issue of terminology, inherent and chosen identity/ies as well as personal integrity albeit physical, sexual or otherwise. The third section explores the issue of discrimination, inequality and social exclusion and consequences of invisibility and lack of social acceptance regarding (self-)acceptance, active citizenship, and social self-inclusion in BiH society. Finally, this report includes some recommendations regarding the improvement of human rights adherence of the LGBTIQ population in BiH.
Organization Q is grateful for the assistance and support of HIVOS and COC Netherlands. Furthermore, Organization Q is grateful to the project team and all those individuals who assisted in the realization of this project along the many challenges that this project faced throughout many of its phases. And finally, our sincerest thanks go to the LGBTIQ population. We have come a long way, and we hope to keep going.

Svetlana Đurković
President and Project Coordinator
Organization Q