{"id":1075,"date":"2011-12-21T22:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rwfund.org\/eng\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-02-07T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T22:51:32","slug":"16-days-in-serbia-campaign-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rwfund.org\/eng\/2011\/12\/21\/16-days-in-serbia-campaign-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Days in Serbia Campaign 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reconstruction Women\u2019s Fund<\/strong>, Autonomous Women\u2019s Center<\/strong>, Art activist group ACT Women<\/strong> and Network of Women against Violence<\/strong> organized Campaign 16 Days<\/strong> with the slogan \u201cStop the Stalking of Women\u201d<\/strong>. As part of this year’s campaign 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women<\/strong> we demanded for amendment of the Criminal Code, of Republic of Serbia, introducing the new criminal offense of\u00a0Stalking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In Serbia, a growing number of cases of stalking have been noted, of which some unfortunately have ended in death of the person who is being tracked. Women who experienced the stalking do not enjoy any protection and are left to the mercy of the perpetrators who do not suffer any criminal sanction.<\/p>\n

During the Campaign our partners in the campaign who drafted and backed the amendment, \u00a0Autonomous Women\u2019s Center and Women against Violence network, received the information that the amendment was recognized and put on the agenda of working group of Ministry of Justice in charge of drafting changes and amendments to the Criminal Code:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.blic.rs\/Vesti\/Hronika\/292180\/Proganjanje-ce-biti-novo-krivicno-delo<\/a><\/p>\n

We printed\u00a050,000 flyers<\/strong>\u00a0and distributed them, in close cooperation with NGOs and institutions, in over\u00a080<\/strong>\u00a0cities in Serbia. For the first time we invited over\u00a060<\/strong>public and student\u2019s libraries in Belgrade and all around Serbia to join the Campaign, bearing in mind one of the main roles of each library, which is to provide information and support for learning and education where they exist and to contribute to raising awareness of the broader public about violence against women as a serious social problem.<\/p>\n

Beside the flyers, we send them two books that Reconstruction Women\u2019s Fund published last year: book\u00a0Becoming Woman, author Adriana Zaharijevic<\/em>, that seeks to explore two substantial points: modes, strategies and resistances to the sedimentation we name “woman”\/”man”; and the fact that the injunction to speak and think in the name of a singular identity – be it even the historically marginalized identity of woman – necessarily entails exclusions and hierarchies and the book Violence against women in intimate partners relationship:\u00a0Model of coordinated community response, author Tanja Ignjatovic<\/em>\u00a0The book on violence against women written within the political context of Serbia is a book which clears the area theorethically and establishes a methodology for evaluation\/selfassessment and monitoring. There is a part of one letter we received from library in Pozarevac:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the book today and flyers that you sent to us. Be sure that the flyers will be forwarded to our readers and the books as soon as processed and placed in our fund. We wish there is no need to protect women and their rights, but since there is a serious problem, it is so important that there are organizations like yours that seek to improve the situation and protect women\u2019s rights.\u00a0<\/em>Sincerely, Danica Otasevic\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

We continued cooperation with over 15 high schools in Serbia, started last year. From the institutions we included in this year Campaign we would like to mention Office of Ombudsperson, Republic Institute for Social Protection, Office of the Commissioner for Gender Equality.<\/p>\n

To mark the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence against Women Campaign in Serbia, Autonomous Women’s Center (Belgrade), Reconstruction Women’s Fund (Belgrade), Art activist group ACT Women (Belgrade) and the Network of Women Against Violence (Serbia) organized the press conference on 25th of November, on The International Day Against Violence Against Women, at the Media Center.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mc.rs\/kampanja-16-dana-aktivizma-protiv-nasilja-nad-zenama-2011.4.html?eventId=8244<\/a><\/p>\n

RWF and ACT Women invited artist\u00a0Deborah Hunt<\/a>, , maskmaker and performer since 1990 residing in Puerto Rico, founder and artistice director of MASKHUNT Inc, theatre of the futile \u2013 to cooperate with ACT Women in designing the performance\u00a0TIRED<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Socially engaged performance on psychological violence and abuse of women<\/strong>, directed by Dijana Milosevic and performed in the streets. Performance is showing women\u2019s trans-generational transfer of obligations and expectations producing tiredness.<\/p>\n

Debora\u2019s work with ACT women made strong impact on the team and her admiration of their work was equal. They got important skills as well as a new artistic prospective. The16 Days performance was powerful. The potential of the group and of the investment in feminist activism grew and new opportunities have been envisaged.<\/p>\n

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T<\/strong>raveling of the performance in Serbia:<\/p>\n