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Working meeting on political participation of women organised by Women’s Parliamentary Network in cooperation with the Women’s Platform for Development of Serbia

In the National Assembly Building on March 4th, the WPN and the Women’s Platform for Development of Serbia – Gender Policy Forum, held a working meeting on the political participation of women.

OSCE Mission to Serbia will continue to support the activities of Women’s Parliamentary Network

Members of WPN spoke today with the representatives of the OSCE Mission to Serbia about the support to the Network’s activities in the new convocation of the National Assembly. Fully expecting that the WPN would continue with its activities on women’s empowerment once the new convocation of the National Assembly was formed, the representatives of the OSCE Mission expressed their willingness to continue the cooperation and prepare new proposals for new woman MPs.

Meeting between Women’s Parliamentary Network and representatives of state institutions and civil sector, on the proposal of the Law on Equality Between Women and Men

Members of WPN had a meeting with representatives of state institutions and civil sector, in order to discuss the proposal of the Law on Equality Between Women and Men submitted by the Government.

Meeting between Women’s Parliamentary Network and Incest Trauma Centre

Women’s Parliamentary Network had a meeting with Incest Trauma Centre – Belgrade, to discuss the initiative submitted by the Incest Trauma Centre. This initiative consisted of the proposal to have the National Assembly monitor the implementation of legislative measures for the prevention of re-traumatisation of children survivors of sexual violence.

Meeting between Women’s Parliamentary Network and the Trade Union of Nurses and Paramedics of Serbia

In the National Assembly Building, WPN had a meeting with the representatives of the Trade Union of Nurses and Paramedics of Serbia. The topic of the meeting were frequent physical assaults against medical professionals in healthcare institutions.

Meeting between Women’s Parliamentary Network, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Team and Director of the European Gender Equality Institute

Today, in the National Assembly Building, the representatives of WPN had a meeting with the representatives of the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Team and Virginija Langbakk, Director of the European Gender Equality Institute. The meeting was used as an opportunity to present the Gender Equality Index – gender equality measurement in Serbia in 2014. Gender Equality Index was designed by the European Gender Equality Institute, in order to allow a comprehensive measurement of gender equality, and it was being conducted in line with the EU policy context, which Serbia aims to align with during the accession process. The European Institute for Gender Equality updated the Gender Equality Index every two years, and in 2015, it launched a new version. The survey was implemented in the areas of labour, money, knowledge, time, power, health, violence, and crosscutting inequality.

Important step in preventing gender-based violence and prostitution

At its first irregular session of 2016, the National Assembly of Republic of Serbia adopted the amendments to the proposal of the Law on Police and the proposal of the Law of Public Peace and Order, submitted by Dubravka Filipovski and Stefana Miladinović.

Meeting between members of WPN and representatives of gender-sensitive budgeting units from seven municipalities in Serbia

On Wednesday, December 23rd 2015, members of WPN had a meeting with representatives of gender-sensitive budgeting units from seven municipalities in Serbia, in order to discuss the good practice examples of municipal budget initiatives. In her opening word, the Coordinator of WPN Vera Paunović reminded the participants that gender-sensitive budgeting had become an integral part of budget for 2016 thanks to the Law on Budgetary System. She underlined that she saw this as a great success of all women MPs in our Parliament.

Presentation of findings of the GLOBAL Media Monitoring Project on the position of women in the media

In cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, WPN organised the round table called “Women in the Media” in the National Assembly Building. The round table served as a platform to present the findings of the survey on the position of women in media called “Who Makes the News”, conducted within the GLOBAL Media Monitoring Project in 2015.