The coordinator of the SOS service of the Organization …IZ KRUGA – VOJVODINA Ivana Zelic, will participate in the forum Zero Tolerance on Violence against Women. The forum will be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. year from 19 to 20 hours in front of the bookstore Bulevar Books, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 6.
The forum is organized by the Autonomous Festival of Women within the program unit Small School of Humanity.
AFW was created as a resistance to violence, hatred, traditional and retrograde structures. The rights and position of women in society aren’t only women’s issues, but of the entire community and society as the broadest system.
The goal is to raise awareness of the topic of gender identity, issues of violence against women in society, women’s existence in modern society, human rights and open the space to a culture of non-violence.
Participants:
- Ivana Zelic, coordinator of the SOS service for women with disabilities Organization …IZ KRUGA – VOJVODINA
- Nada Padejski Sekerovic, manager of the Safe House for Women within the Center for Social Work
- Dzeneta Agovic, president of the association Impuls Tutin
- Moderator, Ivana Peric, coordinator of SOS Women’s Center Novi Sad.
Participants will talk about what feminism means to them, why violence against women is an important issue, what zero tolerance for gender violence means to them, what challenges they face in practice and why they are personally motivated for the field in which they work.
The festival is the result of connected activists from Novi Sad, who work in various spheres in practice in the fight against violence against women.
Admission to AFW is free.
