The Montenegrin Women's Lobby will support the campaign "One billion stands up against violence against women", which represents the most massive activist movement in the history of the international fight against violence against women.
"The campaign is characterized by symbolic dance movements that everyone understands and which send messages against violence against women in the family and society. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the campaign will not be marked as before, but messages of non-violence will be sent from more than 200 countries. And this year, as and previous ones, the Montenegrin Women's Lobby supports the campaign and joins it, stands shoulder to shoulder with all the activists around the world who will announce their appeals, messages, reactions with the intention that the music and dance "Break the Chain" overcomes the negative phenomenon of violence against women ", announced jr from the Montenegrin Women's Lobby.
They add that women are faced with new challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, which, in addition to risks to health and mortality, "brought an increase in violence against women, girls and girls in conditions of preventive measures such as isolation and restricted movement".
"The economic crisis in the conditions of the pandemic in the focus of many employers for getting dismissals has put a large number of women who are now unemployed and even poorer with their families. The far-reaching consequences of the economic and social crisis are especially visible for women who often worked in the informal economy sector and casual jobs in the gray zone of work. In order to reduce and alleviate the social and economic gap for increasingly poor women, especially from vulnerable categories of women, the institutions of the system and the entire Government of Montenegro must take urgent measures to mitigate and eliminate the consequences of violence against women. The government needs stronger to recognize gender policies and connect violence against women in all its forms, which is increasingly present against women, girls and girls. In addition to physical violence against women and open sexist and chauvinistic phenomena, institutions and the Government must also take into account violence against women in political, socio - cultural and ideological differences".
The Montenegrin Women's Lobby points out that female activists and peacekeepers, although they are few in number and often the target of unsubstantiated criticism, threats, and disparagement, continue to fight.
"In order to help women victims of violence as much as possible, because our capacities for work and action are limited and reduced in every respect. To the daily fight against violence against women, we now add as imperative a decisive fight against all forms of fascism, clerofascism, racism, religious and of national fundamentalism, the fight against blackmail, fear, threats, conflicts. We respond to violence against women with resistance and non-compliance, as well as all forms of suppression of any diversity from anyone. The campaign "One billion stands up against violence against women" does not last only on February 14 , but for us activists and peacekeepers from the Montenegrin Women's Lobby, it is a way of life, rebellion and resistance against all forms of violence against women and in society, against the dominance of the patriarchy that creates, maintains and produces violence and threatens peace and civil coexistence," the statement concludes. Montenegrin women's lobby.
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