On May 18th, activists of the Women Against Violence Network, coordinated by the Autonomous Women's Center, handed over 8,000 signatures to support the Deputy Prime Minister and the President of the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality, Zorana Mihajlović, for proclaiming this day a Day of Remembrance for murdered women who were victims of violence.
Representative of Autonomous Women's Center, Tanja Ignjatovic, spoke at the event "Europe Calling" organized by the Women's Platform for Development of Serbia on May 9th at the Crown Plaza Hotel. "We are deeply concerned about the conservative and extreme right politics in the European Union because here we know what the consequences of such a policy. Even more we are concerned that the EU does not have mechanisms to prevent the collapse of European values by its members", said Ignjatovic.
Incest Trauma Center - Belgrade, Autonomous Women's Center, Labris, Center for Women's Studies and Reconstruction Women's Fund demand that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia consistently implement the original content of the Educational Learning Package on the topic of sexual violence published by the Incest Trauma Center - Belgrade in November 2016, made in 2016, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and jointly promoted in public.
The video "Silent Life" by Aleksandar Dadic and Dejan Terzic, as the best video of youth from Serbia participated in European competition. The authors, together with a representative of the Autonomous Women's Center, which organized the competition at the local level, on 27 February attended the awards ceremony in the premises of the Parliament of the European Union in Brussels.
During the two-day seminar organized by the Autonomous Women's Center, representatives of women's organizations that provide psychosocial and legal support to women survivors of violence, have agreed to a joint monitoring of the implementation of the Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence, which will enter into force on 1 June.
Commenting on the case of Marija and Siniša Mali, directly taking the side of the mayor of Belgrade, and accusing his ex-wife in advance - the director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights, Suzana Paunović, showed that she doesn’t take into account that the one who has political power is ready to abuse it. We remind her that the imbalance of power is the basis of any discrimination and human rights violation, and we warn that, due to the lack of knowledge on this topic, she should maybe find some other business to deal with.
"The members of the Board of Appeal deemed the manner in which the newspapers report about the murder, it is unacceptable from an ethical standpoint because not only that the tragic event is presented as farce, but also the victim is further victimized - referred to as the culprit by which they practically justified the murder" , according to the decisions of the Commission of the Press Council adopted on 27 January, and on the appeals headed by the Autonomous Women's center for daily newspapers Alo and Informer.
We, women, activists, feminists from Serbia, in solidarity with the sisters from the United States, are going out on the street because we do not want to be a silent witness of time in which the new president of the leading world power is preparing to apply violently sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist ideology espoused throughout the campaign.
The organization ASTRA, during the December celebrations of 16 years of work in the field of combating and preventing trafficking in human beings, as well as providing support and assistance to victims who have had experience of exploitation, awarded a plaque of gratitude Autonomous Women's Center.
As an informal partner organization of the Support Center for women from Kikinda, Autonomous Women's Center is engaged in the implementation of a series of trainings on multisectoral cooperation and coordination of actions of the competent services in the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence.
