Publications

This report has been prepared with two primary objectives. The first is to examine how the media in Montenegro report on gender-based violence (GBV) through the analysis of a sample of 2,661 media reports and to what extent they adhere to the principles of journalistic professionalism and ethical reporting. The second objective is to employ an innovative experimental method to assess the extent and nature of the influence that media reporting on this subject exerts on citizens’ attitudes, opinions, and subsequent behaviour.

For the first time, this report provides public insight into the gender structure of real estate ownership in Montenegro based on administrative data. It represents an important contribution to mapping the real property gap between women and men in Montenegro. The survey included 404,145 units- individual residential and commercial buildings in Montenegro. Not available in English.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported the development of the third, updated edition of the Methodology within the project "Support to the promotion and integration of gender equality". Not available in English

The Methodology for assessing the impact of the budget on gender equality is part of the gender agenda of the Secretariat of the Competitiveness Council (SCC) for 2022 and was developed in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the competent Ministry of Finance. The purpose of the Methodology is to provide support to the state administration institutions of Montenegro in integrating the gender perspective into the budget. Not available in English.

The intention of this Handbook is to help journalists, in a simple and clear way, to report on gender-based violence against women as professionally and ethically as possible. This Handbook seeks to shed light on the key issues in reporting on this topic, to help dispel the myths that shape the reporting on violence, and to formulate understandable and applicable guidelines and recommendations that could improve and advance existing practice. Not available in English.

This public opinion survey on perception of psychological violence in Montenegro was commissioned by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro for the NGO Women’s Safe House and conducted by the DeFacto Agency from May to July 2022 on a representative sample of 1,008 respondents over the age of 18. Although this is not a traditional victimological research in terms of its scope, it has provided us with very important and interesting findings, not only about how psychological violence is perceived by Montenegrin citizens, but also about its prevalence, and it can therefore complement the official statistics that does not disaggregate data per type of violence.

The Commentary on Montenegro’s gender equality law offers an overview of the role of the different institutions and organizations in implementing the Law and examples of best practice. Not available in English.