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OSCE Mission to Montenegro facilitates first meeting between police women from Montenegro and Serbia
Publishing date: 15 October 2021
As a concrete outcome of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro’s campaign on more women in policing, the first meeting of the Women Police Association from Montenegro and the Network of Women in Police from Serbia was organized in Podgorica on 14 October 2021, supported by the Mission and the Swedish Police Regional Project Office in Belgrade...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports a gender sensitive Parliament
Publishing date: 5 October 2021
In partnership with the parliamentary Gender Equality Committee, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a capacity-building workshop on gender mainstreaming on 29 and 30 September 2021, to implement gender assessments in drafting and adopting legislation and policies...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights’ Department for Gender Equality to implement gender responsive policies
Publishing date: 1 October 2021
On 1 October 2021, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro donated technical equipment to the Department for Gender Equality within the Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights. The equipment will help to enhance the Department’s capacity to produce quality reports and presentations on the implementation of gender responsive policies.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports prevention and combating domestic violence at local level
Publishing date: 30 September 2021
From 7 to 28 September 2021, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized in Bijelo Polje, Berane, Plav, Bar and Ulcinj a series of workshops focusing on multi-sectoral approaches supporting women who have experienced domestic violence...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports survivors of domestic and gender-based violence
Publishing date: 26 August 2021
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro has supported the NGO Safe Women’s House to increase its shelter capacities for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence, by providing a prefabricated house in June 2021. On 24 August, Siv-Katrine Leirtroe, Acting Head of the Mission, visited the shelter.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro co-organized online regional conference of women parliamentarians
Publishing date: 16 June 2021
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) supported Parliament’s Gender Equality Committee in organizing an online regional conference on 14 June 2021 on the role of parliaments in advancing gender equality and women in politics...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms in conducting an analysis on decisions made by selected courts in cases of domestic and gender-based violence
Publishing date: 28 April 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
The findings of the “Analysis of verdicts of misdemeanour courts in Montenegro in the field of domestic violence and gender-based violence with reference to the practice of the Ombudsman and the European Court of Human Rights” were presented at an online event on 27 April 2021. The authors of the analysis are Nebojša Vučinić, human rights professor; Siniša Bjeković, Ombudsperson of Montenegro and his advisers Dina Knežević and Nemanja Dujović...