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Interview: “Women deserve to receive trustworthy, timely, proactive and non-judgmental services”

Mocking both victims and institutions: How a convicted pimp Mihailo Maksimović became a seemingly important guest on national television programs

Milica Radenković

20/04/2022 18.09

Few would have heard of Mihailo Maksimović if this convicted pimp had not written a book about his "job" and then became a welcomed guest in many media, including those with a national frequency.

Response to the increasing digital violence against women and girls

Although they make up more than half of the world’s population, women and girls around the world are still at risk of being killed and exposed to violence, intimidation and harassment just because they are women. Violence against women and girls is the result of intersectional forms of social, political, economic, racial and cultural discrimination they are exposed to on a daily basis.

A dedicated website has been launched on the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Convention​

Illustration: http://www.coordination-vaw.gv.at/istanbul-konvention/

On the occasion of 10 years of the Istanbul Convention, a dedicated website has been launched, to mark the anniversary of adopting this important document on May 11.

It would have been better if it had never happened, if she had not accused him and he did not do it; it would be better if rape never happened and there were no victims. If Milena Radulović and other girls had no reason to accuse Miroslav Aleksić, and Danijela Štajnfeld - Branislav Lečić. It is terrible and difficult to accept when we wish these horrific things never happened at all. But they happened, and they are talked about now because they happen to many women.

Commissioner for the Protection of Equality: Warning to the public regarding inadmissible content on Happy TV

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Today we are joining the global challenge #WomenSupportingWomen to stand in solidarity with women from Turkey, and help raise awareness of the issue that affects them greatly.

Photograph: UNFPA archive

Want to increase birth rates? Try gender equality

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Violence against women is on the rise in Serbia, according to data from the Safe House Belgrade, while the Autonomous Women's Center says that almost every third perpetrator repeats the act whose direct or indirect victims in a number of cases are children.

In the period from January to June, 14 women were killed in domestic violence, which is five more than in the same period last year, Vesna Stanojević coordinator of the Safe House said to “Vesti”.