“THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER” IN THE CONSTITUTION ACT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
“THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER” IN THE CONSTITUTION ACT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

Summary/Abstract: Fast expanding gender movement, which is acting in the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights and liberties, has been struggling lately to verbalise its agenda and to supplement national legislations with its policy. In support of such a programme, at the Conference in Istanbul in 2011, the Council of Europe offered a set of recommendations on the protection of women and families against gender-based violence (the Istanbul Convention). Consequently, a majority of member countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed and ratified the Convention. Ever since its ratification, Bosnia and Herzegovina and its entities, including the Republic of Srpska, have been driving their legislative apparatus to creating a regulatory framework that would meet the requirements of the Istanbul Convention. However, after years of non-critical adjustment of the legal system to the recommendations of the Convention, certain interest groups (civil societies, non-governmental organisations, and religious communities) in the Republic of Srpska have recognised a subversive gender ideology standing behind this prima facie human rights and fundamental freedoms protection act.

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