As part of the global campaign against violence against women called "Billion Stands Up", dancing was held again today at Independence Square in Podgorica.
A clear message also arrived - to stand up and say - Stop violence. Women's organizations and the Union of Free Trade Unions called on women to report violence and the competent institutions to implement laws and punish violent people.
In the global dance performance "Billion Rises", this year, the world calls for even stronger solidarity in the fight against violence against women.
IT The most massive activist movement in the history of the international fight against violence against women focuses this time on the exploitation of women.
The Trade Union reiterates that motherhood is the main barrier for women on the labor market, and unfortunately it is difficult to prove.
"When a woman wants to realize herself as a mother, an employer in accordance with the law, after the contract expires, she can easily fire her. All this happens precisely in an undemocratic environment, where the state does not adequately protect "women", said Lidija Pejović from the Union of Free Trade Unions.
Deputy Human Rights Protector Siniša Bjeković also agrees that violence against women should not be kept silent.
"Laws and strategies are there, and are we too? Let this day be a message of common sense, these notes the voice of civilization, and these open hearts facing the sun and all of humanity, a reminder that both crimes and victims are around us and among us, let's not turn our backs on them and let's not close our eyes, as if nothing is happening," said Bjeković.
And what is happening, they warn from the Safe Women's House, is that in the last two years in Montenegro, six women have been killed in family-partner violence.
They say that only a quarter of the total number of reports to the police reach the Prosecutor's Office.
"In 80 percent of the verdicts, suspended sentences were handed down, they honor the abusers. We ask the judiciary and the prosecutor's office, as well as the police, to just put the law into practice, to punish the abusers, so that there are fewer beaten and killed women. On that behalf, I greet you with greetings - let's stand up and say stop the violence," said Ljiljana Raičević from the Safe Women's House.
Today there were few men who danced in Podgorica's square. One of them is 17-year-old Balša.
"Of course it's important to support, and here I am supporting with dance, I've come every year until now, so here's this one too," said Balša.
However, the fact that many do not dance does not mean that they do not support the fight against violence against women.
"Well, well, by nature we are like this with two legs as far as dancing is concerned, but I think when we have already come, we support, and I would not agree that there are a lot of vulnerable women here, I think we protect a lot of them like this", he said. is Svetozar.
The dance was organized by the Safe Women's House, with the support of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, UNDP and the Delegation of the European Union in Montenegro. The planetary campaign "A Billion Rises" was launched 16 years ago by the American feminist Yves Ensler, and it was held in Podgorica for the fifth time.
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