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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.
After another one femicide, committed on April 22 in Grbavica near Novi Sad, the civil movement Bravo organizes a protest and demands responsibility and concrete measures women's protection.
"We learned about the seventh femicide this year, as always, from the media - because in Serbia there is still no supervisory body to monitor it, despite the UN recommendation and the demands of the network of women's organizations," say the Bravo movement.
The femicide happened shortly before 22 p.m. on April 22.
The man who committed the femicide was later found at the scene of the crime and taken into custody. He was ordered to be kept in police custody for 48 hours.
The Bravo movement also draws attention to everything that precedes the commission of such a crime, emphasizing other forms Nasil, such as psychological, physical, and often sexual, digital and economic, which occur before the actual murder.
As they note, the most frequent perpetrators of violence are partners, spouses, sons and other close men.
What is femicide?
The World Health Organization defines femicide as "the killing of women because they are women," and the UN defines it as "the gender-related killing of women and girls."
Some countries have adopted specific laws that criminalize femicide, while in many other countries the word is not widely used, but is increasingly accepted by activists fighting gender-based violence.
The Bravo movement expressed its demands on Instagram and added that it is necessary for every institution and every school to have a code of ethics that would prevent any form of violence, abuse and harassment, so that those institutions would be a safe place for everyone.
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"So that girls and young women always know unequivocally who they can turn to instead of being silent and suffering or confiding in each other and thinking about their protection mechanisms," underlined the Bravo movement.
Femicides in 2025.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been seven femicides in which the husband and son were the ones who committed the murder of the wife and mother.
Two femicides were committed in January.
Another was committed soon after, in Ferboir, and three more in March.
The last one was committed in April.
Violation of ethical codes in media reporting and guidelines of Journalists against violence
"The media still mostly write about femicide in the context of 'love tragedies', normalizing the most brutal form of violence that takes the lives of our fellow citizens," the Bravo movement announced.
The use of sensational headlines and the use of personal information to increase readership and collect clicks, drawing attention to the victim whose identity must not be revealed just like that, is well known.
Media attention shifts away from the perpetrator of the crime and the word "femicide" is often overlooked.
In addition to the victim's identity, which should be protected, some media outlets also publish their photos, not taking into account the consequences they leave behind.
The media often shape the image of femicide to the public, so it is important to present this crime in the right ethical way.
Journalists against violence, as a group of female journalists and editors who organized, publicly and loudly fight against violence against women, published guidelines, as tools for better journalism, on Oblacoder.
According to them, examples of violation of those guidelines are sensationalist headlines and details, detailed description of violence, publication of identity and photos of the victim, lack of context about femicide, inappropriate focus on the perpetrator and statements of neighbors that relativize violence.
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