Another woman was killed in Kragujevac on Monday. The Kragujevac police announced that the suspect was arrested and that he was detained for up to 48 hours, noting that he was treated for his injuries at the Kragujevac Clinical Center.
As Serbia counts the seventh femicide since the beginning of 2025, the activist group "Zene ze promene" is organizing a protest on Thursday (April 24), at Freedom Square in Novi Sad, from 18 p.m.
Coercive control is an act or pattern of behavior that involves violence, threats, humiliation and intimidation, as well as other forms of abuse in a partner relationship. The goal of this behavior of the abuser is to hurt, punish or intimidate his victim. Coercion and controlling behavior lie at the very core of partner and family violence, to which women are far more exposed than men.
In Serbia, there are no official statistics of femicide despite the numerous efforts and initiatives of women's non-governmental organizations, and data on the number of women killed is still collected from the media. Available research shows that in Serbia, on average, every two weeks, a woman is killed by an intimate partner or a family member, most often in her home.
Despite the growing number of cases of domestic violence, Germany faces a shortage of places in safe houses. The needs of the victims exceed the capacities, and the law that would solve this has not yet been adopted. Experts warn of the danger of returning women to violent partners
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated today, November 25. In Serbia, since the beginning of the year, 17 women have been killed in partner and family violence
Since the beginning of the year, 15 cases of femicide have been recorded that occurred in a family environment. Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center tells "Vreme" that it is necessary for citizens to get involved in helping women they know are living in violent relationships
A man from Kikinda who beat his wife with a pistol and fired four bullets into her was sentenced to only one year and four months in prison. "The light sentences for domestic violence are a consequence of the fact that prosecutors do not treat such cases as attempted murder," Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center told Vreme.
An appeal to all parliamentarians to adopt a new article of the law that would regulate child allowance for children whose mothers are victims of femicide
The Prosecution proposed detention because the suspect is charged with a criminal offense for which a prison sentence of more than ten years has been prescribed.
The husband of the deceased woman was arrested on Saturday, after the woman's body was found in the apartment in Voždovac
"I will fight so that the killer's sister does not get custody, who said she was guilty of not killing my Olga herself." This is what Ljiljana Antić told "Blic" in 2017, who fought for her grandchildren after her daughter was killed by her husband. Seven years later, more than 200 femicides occurred in Serbia, according to data from the Autonomous Women's Center (AŽC).
The police arrested a man from Backa Palanka on suspicion of verbally and physically abusing his partner who jumped out of the window in despair
During the previous year, more than 32.000 emergency measures were imposed on abusers, but only in three percent of cases did the murdered women report the violence beforehand
400 children were left behind by women killed in domestic violence in the past five years. Those children are also victims of domestic violence, who after the tragedy grow up without any systemic support
Failure to report violence can lead to a fatal outcome. That is why the Citizen's Protector appeals to everyone to immediately report knowledge, as well as any suspicion that violence against women has occurred or is occurring in their vicinity or surroundings.
Two murders of women within five days horrified Kosovo, but they are not a surprise. Experts say that in a harsh patriarchy, women are left at the mercy of their husbands, and that the system overlooks abusers. They often get away with a paltry fine
In Italy last year, one woman was killed every three days. The film about femicide "There's Still Tomorrow" by Paola Cortelesi appeared in Italy at the time of violent protests against femicide, and in 2023, it became more watched than "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer". It is also the best-ranked film directed by an Italian woman so far.
A protest was held due to the latest femicide that happened on Monday, March 11, in the Vidovdan neighborhood in Novi Sad.
MP Ana Oreg proposes that people reported or convicted of domestic violence be monitored electronically from now on. Oreg tells "Vreme" that this way the number of murders of women can be reduced and he hopes that the authorities will finally accept some proposal of the opposition.
A man killed his wife in Essenau, about fifty kilometers west of Vienna. Five women were killed in Vienna on Friday, three of them in a brothel
In Novi Sad, a protest was held on the occasion of the double femicide in the village of Rakovac, where the institutions were appealed to for the umpteenth time to react
Throughout the Western Balkans, women are harassed, raped, beaten and killed. The perpetrators are usually their partners. Most countries in our region have adopted appropriate laws and regulations to combat violence against women, but their implementation is still inconsistent, say activists. Even after repeated reports of violence, competent institutions do not react adequately, and women remain unprotected
The Green-Left Front (ZLF) today condemned the statement of ombudsman Zoran Pašalić that "femicide is the wrong term because men do not kill women because they are women", assessing that this "shameful statement shows a lack of understanding of the problem of violence against women and represents a terrible message to society in which this year alone, 27 women were killed in partner violence"
In the past ten years, more than 300 women lost their lives in gender-based violence in Serbia, and this year alone, 27 of them were killed, the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights announced.
The draft law will be ready in October, and its adoption is planned for the first quarter of 2024, said the Minister of Justice of the RS, Miloš Bukejlović.
They watched her die, and now they are judging her. They downloaded the video of her murder and distributed it further. She is on trial because she was going back to him, because she had a child with a troubled man who has a criminal past. They are judging her because "who knows what she provoked him with". It is her fault that she was alive, and it is her fault that she was killed
