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With Solidarity and Support Against the Attack on Women in Black

·27. October 2021. ·

Joint Press Statement of CSOs in Serbia: 

We express our solidarity with the Women in Black and we invite everyone who wants and can to come and join us for the cleaning of hate graffiti on Wednesday, October 27, from 1 pm at the premises of Women in Black (Jug Bogdanova 18) in Belgrade.

We call for urgent prosecution of persons who wrote hate graffiti and insults on the premises of Women in Black in Belgrade on the night between Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23, 2021. Moreover, we consider the condemnation of the attack by the representatives of the executive and legislative authorities necessary since the members of the ruling coalition as well as the pro-government media often slandered this organization and its members as traitors.

This attack is a direct consequence of the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica and the impunity of hooligans who use every opportunity to celebrate Ratko Mladic and insult Bosniak people, as was the case on October 10 this year at the handball match between Red Star and Novi Pazar.

The joint action will be organized in compliance with the epidemiological measures prescribed by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Signatories:

  • Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia (YIHR Serbia) 
  • The Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights YUCOM
  • Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina 
  • Humanitarian Law Center 
  • The Network of the Committees for Human Rights in Serbia 
  • Committee for Human Rights Nis
  • Civic Initiatives
  • Sandzak Committee for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms 
  • Cultural Centre DamaD
  • European Movement Serbia
  • Institute for European Affairs
  • Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
  • Centre for Democracy Foundation
  • Civic Action Pancevo
  • NGO Impuls
  • Foundation BFPE for a Responsible Society 
  • Academic Initiative Forum 10
  • Urban In Novi Pazar
  • Centre for Public History
  • Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER)
  • Association of Women Sandglass
  • SOS Women’s Centre
  • Women for Peace
  • Autonomous Women’s Center
  • Association Women’s Forum Prijepolje
  • Verujem ti Initiative
  • Forum ZFD – Serbia
  • Women’s Solidarity 

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