“In the fight against family violence in Montenegro, important steps have been taken , but there is still a lot of work and the “silence” in the community is a particularly problematic”, was estimated at the conference held on June, 26 in Zabljak. Preventing violence against women and family violence is much harder in smaller …
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From 6 – 7 June 2018, the third training for the Civil Society Strengthening Platform (CSSP) was conducted at Hotel Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The training was organised by WAVE together with regional partner from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foundation United Women Banja Luka. A total of 30 participants representing civil society organisations from Bosnia …
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Within the project “Naming and Shaming Sexual Violence” which SOS Hotline Niksic implements together with NGO Prima and Women’s Safe we held the first training in Tivat. The topic of the training was the development of a methodology for monitoring cases of sexual violence. During three day long workshops we developed a draft of a methodology …
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Executive of SOS Hotline Niksic, Natasa Medjedovic participated in International Training Programme in Stockholm. Training lasted 3 weeks, from May, 28 till June 15. Topic of this training was: Prevent and respond to Gender Based Violence – strengthening agents of change. The main objective of training was to increase capacity of targeted organizations and authorities …
Sexual abuse of children and women is still taboo in Montenegro, and the project “Naming and Shaming Sexual Violence” will contribute to the monitoring of the work of all institutions in the system of protection and improvement of the legal framework and its harmonization with European standards. Sexual violence most often remains unreported, while on …
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To adequately provide assistance in a shelter for women and children survivors of violence, ethics is the main principle. With this in mind, we started the realization of interactive training on ethical principles for work in SOS shelter. The training is part of the regional project “Building capacities of SOS shelter to provide good quality …
Outreach team- established by SOS Hotline Niksic, consisted of representatives of the Center for Social Work, Police, SOS Niksic and women’s NGOs, regularly visits 4 municipalities of northern and central Montenegro: Niksic, Savnik, Zabljak and Pluzine. Till today, the members of Outreach team have visited over 15 settlemets and villages in this part of Montenegro, …