The aim of the "Until Death Do Us Part" campaign of the Autonomous Women's Center is to warn that femicide is not a sudden tragedy, but the last act of long-term violence that the environment could recognize
How the escapades of the popular presenter Sanja Marinković and her guests can endanger women who suffer domestic violence
Revenge pornography destroys the lives of women and girls, institutions remain deaf, and society still refuses to understand the scale of the consequences of this problem. Why is there no single conviction and until when will the victim be guilty?
A man from Kikinda who beat his wife with a pistol and fired four bullets into her was sentenced to only one year and four months in prison. "The light sentences for domestic violence are a consequence of the fact that prosecutors do not treat such cases as attempted murder," Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center told Vreme.
An appeal to all parliamentarians to adopt a new article of the law that would regulate child allowance for children whose mothers are victims of femicide
Please inform the public as soon as possible what you will do to provide educators with a dignified position and quality work, and relieve parents from worrying about the safety and well-being of children in schools, writes in an open letter addressed to the Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Education
Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center says that with such a large number of femicides in Serbia, the state institutions have not stated what actually happened and where the mistakes were made. Because of this, women lose confidence in institutions, so they often do not report abuse, which can lead to new tragedies
Psychologist from the Autonomous Women's Center Tanja Ignjatović stated that apart from the law, there is a serious lack of prevention. In 2023, nine women and three men lost their lives in the house as part of family tragedies
In the territory of the city of Belgrade, the number of punished persons who engage in prostitution is even 8,8 times higher than the number of punished users of services, although the Law on Public Order and Peace treats both as criminal offenses
"Our education system systematically refuses to systematically address these issues." Everyone can make mistakes, but you keep making the same mistakes, only people's names change"
In 2019, the identity of the victim was revealed in every other text, while in 2021, the number of posts in which this is done is 40 percent. In this period, the number of texts in which the act of violence is justified by external circumstances or personal characteristics of the abuser decreased (from 20 to 11 percent), and the responsibility for violence is less often shifted to the victim (from 10 to 7 percent of the analyzed posts). Credit goes to local activists and journalists who showed how to report professionally and fight against violence
The Autonomous Women's Center condemned the publication of an interview with multiple convicted rapist Igor Milošević in the daily newspaper "Informer" and on their YouTube channel, because it is "a direct promotion of the crime of rape and the convicted rapist".
