Photo: Milena Đorđević/Journalists against violence against womenThe International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated today, November 25. In Serbia, since the beginning of the year, 17 women have been killed in partner and family violence
On Monday, November 25, it will be 25 years since they United Nations established the International Day to Fight Against violence against women and since they support the action "16 days of activism" which is held this year under the slogan "Let's unite against violence against women and girls".
"16 days of activism against violence against women" is a global, worldwide campaign marked by 1.700 organizations in over 100 countries. The campaign begins on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on December 10, the International Human Rights Day.
According to the United Nations website, violence against women and girls remains one of the most widespread and widespread violations of human rights in the world.
"Globally, almost one in three women has been exposed to physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner, non-partner sexual violence or both at least once in their life." For at least 51.100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with one final and brutal act – their murder by a partner or family member. This means that one woman in the world is killed every 10 minutes", according to the UN.
Unsafe in their own home
In Serbia, it was killed from 2011 to 2023 406 women and girls, the data are from the "Femicide Memorial", which was presented by the Autonomous Women's Center in May of this year.
In domestic and intimate partner violence 17 women were killed.
When it comes to the age of women, the largest number of victims were between 46 and 55 years old, 88 of them, or 21,67 percent. The highest number of femicides was recorded in Belgrade - 80, i.e. 19,7 percent, followed by Juznobački district - 35, i.e. 8,62 percent.
More than half of the women were killed in partner violence, of which 34,24 were married and 17,73 percent were in a partnership. 39,8 percent of women were killed in another family relationship, of which the son was the killer in most cases. Ex-partners are the killers in 15,76 percent of cases.
Rapists, acquaintances, stalkers and users of prostitution services are the perpetrators of femicide in 2,47 percent of examined cases, according to data from the "Femicide Memorial".
"It turns out that the most unsafe place for a woman is her home, because the data show that more than half of the women were killed in the house or apartment where they lived with their partner or another person who killed them," Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Association said in May. center.
Report violence:
Police: 192
Unique SOS phone for Vojvodina: 0800-10-10-10, free call on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m
Safe women's house Novi Sad, CSR: 021 / 64-65-746, 24 hours a day
Novi Sad "From the Circle of Vojvodina": 021/447-040, 066/447-040, 0800-10-10-10 on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 16 p.m
Autonomous Women's Center - SOS telephone for support of women victims of violence: 0800 100 007, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m
Report of domestic violence (MUP): 0800-100-600
Women's Center SOS telephone against violence against women and children: 2645-328, on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m
SOS telephone number for women and children victims of violence: 3626-006, from 14 a.m. to 18 p.m
SOS Children's Line "Number for your problem": 0800-123456, free and confidential calls, 24 hours a day
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