Numerous international missions are asking for urgent and effective investigations into attacks on journalists in Serbia, clear condemnations from officials, and for the police to stop preventing the work of the media at public gatherings. And what is the government's response to all that? The establishment of its own media association, ostensibly endangered, and the deception of international actors
"Threats to journalists often come from circles that refer to 'family', 'national' or 'patriotic' values. And shouldn't the basic value be respect for women? How is it possible for someone to write to a woman or girl that she should be killed, expelled, labeled as an 'enemy' - just because she is doing her job"
"Many female journalists stopped reporting attacks and threats because they realized that the institutions were not doing their job. This process does not only mean waiting for months, but also facing again those who insulted, attacked, threatened them... In a country where journalists are killed and the cases are never resolved, where even the most influential journalists are threatened, it is natural that my students in the audience ask: 'Will this happen and to me?'”
Attacks happen on the street or in connection with reporting on the street, and they don't happen because the journalist is reporting on such and such a topic, but because she is reporting at all.
What is the position of female journalists in society and in newsrooms? What are they all facing? How many female journalists and how many female editors are there in Serbia? What does that data tell us? Why do young journalists decide to stay in that profession, despite everything, and what is standing against them on that path
In tomorrow's edition, the tabloid "Alo" publishes on its front page a photo of a half-naked woman who it claims works at the prosecutor's office, and that the photo was taken at the workplace. "Journalists against violence against women" ask what the prosecutor's office will do upon learning that public office holders knowingly participated in the act that is being prosecuted.
There are more and more announcements of violence against women in the media, but the identity of both the victim and the perpetrator is still easily revealed. It's one thing when you state that she survived the violence, for example. AB from Voždovac, and quite another thing when you write that it is about CD (81), from the hamlet of so-and-so, which is part of the village next to Brus, and you also photograph the house
