OSCE Mission to Montenegro joins “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” worldwide campaign

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro has joined the worldwide campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence”, that runs annually from 25 November, the International Day against Violence against Women, to 10 December, International Human Rights Day.

To mark the 16 days of activism, the Mission, in partnership with the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights of Montenegro, produced three TV spots for national TV stations and social networks. 

The objective of the campaign is to illustrate the unequal distribution of power, underrepresentation of women in decision-making positions, limited access to resources, financial dependence and the consequences of violence against women.

Tea Dakić, psychiatry specialist in the Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Maja Raičević, executive director of the NGONGO
non-governmental organization Centre for Women’s Rights and Fana Delija, executive director of the NGO Centre for Roma Initiatives appear in the videos, as women in the fight for zero tolerance against gender-based violence.

This year’s Mission campaign relies on the OSCE-led Survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women, conducted in 2018 in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, that provides comparable data on different forms of violence women experience in their childhood and throughout the course of their lives. In Montenegro, it included a representative survey of 1,227 women aged 18 to 74.

Joining the global campaign, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro shows its commitment to promote gender equality and to stand with its partner, the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, to contribute to a society of zero tolerance towards gender-based violence.

Equal in society - Tea Dakić, a psychiatry specialist https://bit.ly/360xSFU

Equal in society - Maja Raičević, executive director of the NGO Centre for Women’s Rights https://bit.ly/2NqaKKz

Equal in society -  Fana Delija, executive director of the NGO Centre for Roma Initiatives https://bit.ly/3o3Q6ML