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- Public statement: Allocation of financial resources for SOS helplines in Leskovac
- Press Release: The Avon Foundation for Women is donating 1 million dollars to Women's support organizations around the world
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- Working hours and contacts of Women Against Violence Network organizations during modified working conditions due to Corona virus
- PRESS RELASE: The participants of the “Women friendship festival” in Tutin have been discriminated
- Invitation to join the support and solidarity rally for Marija Lukić March the 6th in Kruševac
- Invitation to join the support and solidarity rally for Marija Lukić February the 21st in Kruševac
- Invitation to join the support and solidarity rally for Marija Lukić January the 29th in Kruševac
- PRESS RELEASE: Human Rights Committee Vranje and the SOS Corner for Girls program won the 2019 World award
- Announcement regarding November 25th, The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Standing in solidarity with our sisters from the U.S.A., we – women, activists, feminists in Serbia – will head out to protest in the streets because we don’t want to be silent witnesses at this time when the incoming president of the leading power in the world is getting ready to implement a violently sexist, woman-hating, homophobic, xenophobic, and racist ideology which he promoted during his whole campaign. Confronted by these signals that were sent to all forward thinking women and men around the world, we decided to organize the Women’s March against Fascism in Belgrade!
The acquittal of Radomir Pocuca opens up the possibility for new unhindered attacks by any violent group on civil society organizations defending human rights, organizations that remind society of the crimes committed in our name, and that fight against discrimination of marginalized groups. This ruling confirms that the deep breakdown of social values is reflected in the work of institutions, including independent bodies.
During the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence we gathered many signatures in support of the initiative to proclaim May 18th the Day of Remembrance of Murdered Women Victims of Violence.
During the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence the ...Out of Circle – Vojvodina organization gathered signatures for the petition calling for May 18th to be proclaimed the Day of Remembrance of Murdered Women Victims of Violence. The petition was initiated by the Women against Violence Network and the Autonomous Women’s Center and has till now been supported by numerous everyday people as well as decision makers on local and provincial levels.
December 5th 2016, Belgrade – As part of the 16 Days against Gender Based Violence campaign, we invite you again this year, to join us on Tuesday December 6th, and together with the Women against Violence Network and Women in Black, commemorate the Montreal Massacre – a commemoration that is marked world wide. On this occasion we request that there be no more murders motivated by hatred of women.
We are requesting the closure of psychiatric hospitals because they don’t cure people but rather prolong their suffering through isolation. If someone is different this doesn’t necessarily make him or her dangerous, and it’s up to all of us to contribute to overcoming these stereotypes. It’s been a long time since the World Health Organization recommended deinstitutionalization in regards to mental health treatment. It’s now just a question of whether we want to follow world trends or not – Lepa Mladjenovic, psychologist and activist from Belgrade, told Radio Kotor during an interview. Last Friday Mladjenovic held a lecture at the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kotor on the anti-psychiatry movement and deinstitutionalization.
On November 25th – the international day dedicated to combating violence against women and the first day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence campaign – a symposium was organized in Vienna aimed at preventing murders of women just because they’re women.
Following three consultation meetings held this year on Zlatibor, in Belgrade and in Vrnjacka Banja with women’s organizations – members of the Women against Violence Network, the Autonomous Women’s Center and the Network have submitted recommendations to the Rulebook to the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Issues, the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality and the UNDP Office in Belgrade.
Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, Minister without portfolio who is in charge of demographics and population policy, and member of the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality, supported and signed the petition calling for the proclamation of May 18th as the Day of Remembrance of Murdered Women Victims of Violence.
On the invitation of the Ministry of Justice, representatives of the Autonomous Women’s Center, Vanja Macanovic and Vedrana Lacmanovic, met on November 7th with the Minister of Justice, Nela Kuburovic, and Ministry representatives. On this occasion, the Minister, Nela Kuburovic, signed the petition calling for the proclamation of May 18th as the Day of Remembrance of Murdered Women Victims of Violence.