Youth Power, together with the members of the Budi Muško Club Mostar, this year, as part of the project “Promoting healthier lifestyles among Youth in BiH” by challenging gender stereotypes, organized a series of activities on the campaign” 16 days of activism in the fight against violence against women.
The members of the Budi Muško Club also decided this year to conduct an online campaign through social networks where they sought to raise public awareness of the problem of violence against women.
Within the “16 Days of Activism” campaign, a press conference was organized by UN Women Bosnia and Herzegovina, Youth Power NGO’s partners, on the Spanish Square, where representatives of the police, social work center, health institutions, NGO sector, Advisor to the Mayor of Mostar Radmila Komadina and UN Women BiH representative Fedra Idžaković referred .
“We did a lot, but there is still a lot of work ahead of us to make our system work better, and victims and survivors of domestic violence find help and protection,” said Idžaković.
Representative of the Swedish Development and Assistance Agency Johan Norqvist pointed out that the fight against violence against women is something that must be constantly worked out, expressing hope that these activities will bring some positive changes.
“Gender-based violence is a problem for all of us and I think it is very important to change attitudes in order to get a society in which greater equality is in place,” said Norqvist.
After the press conference, volunteers from Youth Power NGOs organized a street action where they tried to attract people’s attention by trying to send a strong message that violence was never a solution, that we should fight for the protection of human rights and against all forms of violence. They sought to encourage the public to be equally responsible for the violence, to recognize and react to violence and to work on its prevention, in this case, violence against women.
