Regional Conference within the project “Unifying the Voices for Ending Violence Against Women“ held

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Monday, 23 September 2019 08:53

 

Representatives of the NGO Young Roma, Fatima Naza and Katarina Jočić participated in a regional conference held on September 19, 2019 at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, which was held within a project “Unifying the Voices for Ending Violence Against Women“.

The conference was organized by the Roma Women's Center “Bibija” from Serbia, which was also the leading organization during the project. Regional report on the implementation of the CEDAW and the Istanbul Convention was presented at the conference. Areas covered by the report are in relation to discrimination against Roma women in the field of health care, child marriage and protection for Roma women in the situation of domestic violence.

Also, organizations which were partners on this project presented national reports for their countries, for whose writing they were responsible. These are the organizations: NGO "Young Roma" from Montenegro, NGO "Otaharin" from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the NGO "Luludi" from North Macedonia, and for Serbia it was organization "Bibija".

This regional conference brought together 70 participants, representatives of state institutions from the mentioned countries, international institutions, non-governmental organizations that were members of the network formed during the project, and women's rights activists.

In addition to reporting, the conference also outlined recommendations that should be taken as key priorities in addressing the issues highlighted in the report.

The regional report can be found at: http://www.bibija.org.rs/en/news/149-regional-report-on-the-elimination-of-all-forms-of-discrimination-against-women

This project was implemented as part of the regional program that was implemented within the framework of the EU/UN Women Regional programme “Ending Violence Against Women in Western Balkans and Turkey: Implementing Norms, Changing Minds”, and NGO Roma is a national partner of organizations for Montenegro.