At the 71st Congress of Serbian Psychologists in Palić, we participated with a statement on the characteristics and prevention of femicide-suicide committed with a firearm in an intimate partner relationship. The Congress, whose name is "New horizons of (cyber) psychology", was organized by the Society of Psychologists of Serbia. The announcement was prepared by Tanja Pavlov, Tanja Ignjatović, Vedrana Lacmanović and Nada Polovina, and the research was carried out within the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project.
At the European Social Welfare Conference in Prague, we participated (online) in an announcement about the characteristics and prevention of femicide-suicide committed with a firearm in an intimate partner relationship. The conference entitled "Regardless of everything, a communal Europe in which no one is left out is possible!" organized by the International Federation of Social Welfare. The announcement was prepared by Vedrana Lacmanović, Tanja Pavlov and Tanja Ignjatović, and the research was carried out as part of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project.
Violence against women is much more present than it is talked about. In the popular show Two and a half psychiatrists, Roberto Grujičić talks to Tanja Ignjatović about the problems women face, as well as how to improve the system and society itself, so that the position of women would be better.
A panel titled “Revenge Porn and Abuse of Intimate Videos” was held on May 16th at the cinema hall of the Philosophy Faculty at the Novi Sad University. The following also spoke at the panel: Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Special Prosecutorial Office for High-Tech Crime, Mirjana Stajkovac, investigative journalist Andela Milivojevic, and legal expert from the Autonomous Women’s Center, Vanja Macanovic, while journalist Tamara Srijemac moderated the discussion.
The Autonomous Women’s Center invites you to a media conference in commemoration of May 18th – Remembrance Day of Women Victims of Violence - #WeDemandAnswers.
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, the Autonomous Women's Center (AWC) held an expert meeting on The concept of "parental alienation" in the context of violence in an intimate partner relationship. The meeting was held online and was attended by 24 representatives of women's organizations from Serbia and the region.
On May 18th, the National Remembrance Day of Women Victims of Violence we look back on the fact that in 2023 15 women and two girls have been murdered in Serbia in a family-partner context. On this occasion the Autonomous Women’s Center recommends that the National Parliament hold a public hearing in the coming months, before the Board for Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality, where they will discuss the conduct, that is, the wrongful courses of action taken by institutions which lead to the murder of a woman in Pirot.
AWC representative, Sanja Pavlovic, took part in an academic workshop “Struggle against Sexual Violence in Conflicts – Comparative international and national insights”, by speaking about “Feminist organization around the topic of the culture of remembering women who had survived sexual violence in war in former Yugoslavia”.
Today another woman was murdered. This murder took place in Novi Sad, she was murdered with a gun, while at her workplace. This woman had also reported the perpetrator for abuse prior to being murdered. She trusted the state and institutional representatives who have been repeatedly calling on victims to report abuse and saying that they’ll protect them. Her murderer had merely been given a restraining order (no contact, no approach), even though those working on her case in institutions knew that the perpetrator worked in a firearm store, that he is a hunter and that he would still have firearms at his disposal even after his registered firearms were taken away.
On April 11, 2023, the Autonomous Women's Center organized the presentation of the first (three-month) results of the application of the mediation model in the employment of women/victims of domestic violence in Belgrade, with the aim of expanding this practice to coordination and cooperation groups throughout Serbia.
