Alen Muhić, "Forgotten Children of War"

03.December 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

I am not a man who hates.

How Alen Muhić's life went, from a nine-year-old boy from Goražde who found out that he was a "child of rape", to a passionate human rights fighter who made Bosnia the first country in the world to recognize children born from the monstrous act of wartime rape

Legislation

16.October 2025 MLJ

Two wins: No light rape and killing of animals

Two bad changes to two important laws were prevented - slaughter without consent will not be a separate crime, but the perpetrators will be tried for rape, and shelters will not be able to kill animals without the consent of a veterinarian

Criminal Law

11.September 2025 MLJ

Rape "light": Serbian demeaning of the crime of rape

The parties in power are again trying to introduce an easier form of rape through changes to the Criminal Code. In principle: he kissed her a little without her consent, it's not really that bad

Personal attitude

16.October 2024 Sanja Pavlovic

On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl: One in five

Despite all the tactics that girls invest in to prevent sexual violence from happening to them, it still happens en masse - regardless of "invisibility", regardless of age, regardless of lifestyle or personal characteristics. It happens on the street, in transport, on the Internet, in educational and health institutions, at training, within the family... As UNICEF claims, often precisely from those whom the child knows and trusts, in places where it should be feels safe

Indija

20.August 2024 MJ

Mass protests over the rape and murder of a doctor: "I feel fear"

"I feel fear when I have to go on duty from the hostel to the medical ward at night," says a doctor from India who joined thousands of women and men protesting the rape and murder of a medical intern who was killed last week during a night shift at a state hospital.

Monument
15.April 2024. Nemanja Rujevic

Victims are silent, politicians target each other with numbers: Where does the story about 20.000 rapes in the war in Kosovo come from?

No one knows exactly how many women were raped by members of Serbian forces and paramilitaries during the war in Kosovo. However, that does not prevent the politicians from Pristina to stick to one wrong assessment and the politicians in Belgrade to counter them. And the victims are still largely silent in fear of family and society

European Union

08.February 2024. DW

No agreement on the definition of rape

The agreement on the umbrella rules on sexual abuse that would have to be applied by all members of the European Union failed on the basic question - how is rape actually determined?

Comment

07.January 2024 Jovana Gligorijevic

Something else about Epstein: Why some Serbs don't understand anything

This journalist, deeply immersed in the study of sexual violence, apologizes in advance, but: it is all around us, around you, around me. And in slums and cardboard settlements and on yachts and raging mansions. The ugly and the beautiful, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the "mice" do this. This is done by leftists and rightists, liberals, libertarians, conservatives, pops, atheists...

SAD

26.April 2023. Z.S.

Donald Trump's rape trial begins: Without the presence of the accused

The former president of the USA defends himself before the Federal Court in the case of the rape of the columnist of the magazine "El" Jean Carroll. Another trial against Trump is underway in the Manhattan District Court, due to the alleged illegal bribery of porn star Stormy Daniels. The trials began after Trump announced his candidacy for the presidential election next year