As before, we bring a short report on the activities of Women in Black in the specifi ed period.
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Street actions: In this reporting period, we actively participated in student and civic protests in Belgrade
COMMEMORATIONS/MARKING OF IMPORTANT DATES OF CRIMES COMMITTED IN OUR NAME, AS WELL AS OTHER CRIMES AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION, DURING AND AFTER THE WARS, IN THE TERRITORY OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA:
February 11, Potočari/Srebrenica - Visit to the Memorial Center of WiB activists and art collectives Škart and Kiosk from Belgrade. We laid fl owers at the monument to the victims of the genocide, then we met with the Mothers of Srebrenica, who hold a prayer/worship ceremony every 11th of the month at the cemetery of the Memorial Center.
Prijepolje, February 27 – Remembrance of the victims of the crime in Štrpci - in front of the memorial plaque in Prijepolje, the 32nd anniversary of the crime in Štrpci was marked. Activists of the WiB Network from Prijepolje and Priboj, together with the victims’ families, paid tribute to the victims of the crime in Štrpci.
COPING WITH THE PAST/TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE – A FEMINIST APPROACH
Ovo This is one of the most important activities of Women in Black. It consists of many segments: street actions, workshops, lectures, creation of diff erent models of transitional justice from a feminist point of view, cooperation with related organizations in the form of joint actions (campaigns, consultative meetings).
Women’s court - a feminist approach to justice
We present a brief report on the activities of Women in Black in connection with the organization of the Women’s Court – a feminist approach to justice in this period.
The fi rst Women’s Court on the territory of Europe was held in Sarajevo, from May 7 to 10, 2015, organized by 10 women’s groups from the territory of the former Yugoslavia (Movement of the Mothers of the Srebrenica and Žepa enclaves, Cure Foundation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Center for Women Victims of War, Center for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatia, Center for Women’s and Peace Education Anima, Kotor, Montenegro, Council for Gender Equality, Skopje, Macedonia, Women’s Lobby, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Center for Women studies and Women in Black, Belgrade, Serbia). The women’s court was attended by more than 500 people from all countries of the former Yugoslavia, but also from: Argentina, Algeria, Palestine, Israel, USA, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, etc.
In the continuation of the process of the Women’s Court, Women in Black, Belgrade coordinate program and other activities, with the support of organizations: Anima, Kotor (Montenegro), Center for Women Victims of War, Zagreb (Croatia), “CURE” Foundation, Sarajevo).
Women’s court – Foča case – On June 26, 2023 Women in Black and the Autonomous Women’s Center from Belgrade, with the support of feminist groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia, organized the Women’s Court – Foča case in Belgrade.
The Women’s Court – the case of Foča was devoted to sexual crimes because during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), Foča was a place of systematic sexual violence and rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia established for the fi rst time in the Foča case that sexual slavery is considered a crime against humanity. Nevertheless, despite this historically signifi cant verdict, some of the sexual crimes against the women and men of Foča, unfortunately, were not disclosed or acknowledged, but were silenced and forgotten... The Women’s Court – the case of Foča is a continuation of the fight, together with the women and men of Foča, for justice for the victims of sexual crimes in Foča and beyond. At the Women’s Court - Foča case, the following testifi ed: Ilvana Konjo, Zenija Hajdarević, Halida Konjo Uzunović and Kemalemir Frašto, while W’sC associates interpreted the political context based on the testimony.
Report on our activities in pdf.
