Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovi\u0107 visited \u010ca\u010dak and spoke at the press conference which was organized as one of the activities on the occasion of \u201e16 days of activism against violence\u201c by Civil association Laris and local authorities of \u010ca\u010dak Municipality.<\/p>\n
At the meeting with Mayor of \u010ca\u010dak Milun Todorovi\u0107, Deputy Mayor Rado\u0161 Pavlovi\u0107, Assistant Mayor Mirjana \u0110okovi\u0107 and Secretary of City Council Miroslav Petkovi\u0107, Commissioner Jankovi\u0107 spoke about causes of discrimination, its detection and responses, but also about preemptive action. It was agreed to focus on these issues in the upcoming period and to organize training for all employees working in the public administration.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Jankovi\u0107 said that there was a growing number of domestic and intimate partner violence incidents which she substantiated with statistical data provided by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. This data shows that as many as 18.746 incidents were reported last year involving adults, children, youth and elderly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fear, that even after an efficient protection system has been established, and I do hope that the new Law on Domestic Violence Prevention will yield results, the underlying causes of domestic violence will remain, namely deeply rooted gender based bias. We still live in a value system fraught with prejudices and stereotypes that place women in a subjugated and humiliating position. All of us, from state institutions with jurisdiction to combat discrimination, civil society \u00a0organizations all the way to each individual citizen, have to work towards altering this cultural pattern that is based on the idea that a women is an object and that she plays a passive role in all segments of society.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Jankovi\u0107 said that violence is a fundamental problem, even more so than the poverty, because there is nothing worse than a situation in which you are trembling with fear in your own home. She said that home is not always a safe haven for many women, something they were taught to believe in their childhood, as some of them end up being killed in their very home.<\/p>\n
Goals of this important campaign \u201cStop the violence\u201d initiated by association Laris from \u010ca\u010dak are to raise awareness about domestic violence and to stress importance of a coordinated response model in every single case of reported violence, something that is envisaged by amendments to the Law.\u00a0Other speakers at the conference included Goran Javorac, expert from \u010ca\u010dak Social Welfare Center, Aleksandar Risimovi\u0107, independant police inspector of \u010ca\u010dak Police Department and Ljiljana Petrovi\u0107 from association Laris from \u010ca\u010dak.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovi\u0107 visited \u010ca\u010dak and spoke at the press conference which was organized as one of the activities on the occasion of \u201e16 days of activism against violence\u201c by Civil association Laris and local authorities of \u010ca\u010dak Municipality. At the meeting with Mayor of \u010ca\u010dak Milun Todorovi\u0107, Deputy Mayor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":24755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n