The Judicial Academy and Autonomous Women's Center, with the support of the project "EU for you", organized two seminars on the topic of "Femicides, which can be protected by children who can be protected."

The seminars are organized within joint efforts to improve skills in the treatment of all representatives, which in their work meet the problem of partnership and domestic violence, especially those who participate in the work of coordination and cooperation groups.

The first was held on 30. January 2025. in Velika Course in Misdemeanor Court, and the second 31. January 2025. in the hall of the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research.

The seminars were intended for judges of higher and basic courts, prosecutors of higher and basic public prosecutors, members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and employees from the Centers for Social Work with the territory of the city of Belgrade.

The topics covered at these seminars were:
•    Coordinated by the actions of higher and basic public prosecutors' offices in cases of Article 4 of the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence 
•    Challenges and opportunities in the treatment of coordination groups and cooperation in cases of serious forms of criminal offenses of gender-based violence - group work
•    Position of children whose mothers are victims of femicides in criminal proceedings

These topics spoke:
•    Gorjana Mirčić Čaluković, Public Prosecutor of the Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade
•    Vanja Macanovic, lawyer at the Autonomous Women's Center
•    Ivana Milovanović, Judge of the High Court in Nis
•    Milica Ljubičić, Public Prosecutor of the Second Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade

 
The following seminars on this topic are scheduled for 6. February 2025. in Kragujevac and 7. February 2025. in Nis.