{"id":3348810,"date":"2021-01-27T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/?p=3348810"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:37:28","slug":"raba-voca-starts-the-campaign-break-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/raba-voca-starts-the-campaign-break-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;Raba Voca&#8220; Starts &#8222;Break The Silence&#8220; Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Center for Protection of Women and Children \u201cRaba Voca&#8220;\n&#8211; Mitrovica, organized an advocacy campaign on raising awareness of women about\ntheir rights. Respecting the physical distance, with masks on and a limited\nnumber of participants, Raba Voca has raised its voice against gender based violence\nin Kosovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8222;Break the Silence&#8220; campaign started its\nactivities in February and continued until the end of September, as a\nbeneficiary of the 14th round of the Kosovo Women&#8217;s Fund (KWF) in order to\nraise awareness of institutions and the community on women&#8217;s rights and\nimportance of combating gender-based violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives from the municipalities of Mitrovica,\nSkenderaj and Vushtrri, assembly members as well as representatives from civil\nsociety, women entrepreneurs and students participated in this advocacy\ncampaign. A total of 205 participants, respectively 160 women and 30 men, of\ndifferent ethnicities such as: Albanian, Bosniak, Serb, Turk, Egyptian, Ashkali\nand Roma from 13 villages of the Municipality of Vushtrri, Mitrovica and\nSkenderaj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the information sessions held in the three\nabove-mentioned municipalities, the citizens were also informed about the\nimportance of reporting violence in order to strengthen women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;Break the Silence&#8220; highlighted one of the main\nobstacles to combating violence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;Most women consider domestic violence as a private\nmatter and very few women who have experienced violence talk about it, and very\nfew of them report violence,&#8220; said Fidane Hyseni, Executive Director of Center\n\u201cRaba Voca\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative was welcomed by the participants, where the\nparticipants were informed more about the current situation and the work that\nneeds to be done to achieve more positive results for women, and consequently\nfor society as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;We knew that violence is not good, but we did not know\nwhere to go&#8220;, are the words of one of the participants, who assessed this\ninitiative as very beneficial for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is supported by the Kosovo Women&#8217;s Fund (KWF) and funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and co-financed by UN Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Presentation-RRGK_R14-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3348829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Presentation-RRGK_R14-2.jpg 922w, https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Presentation-RRGK_R14-2-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Presentation-RRGK_R14-2-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Protection of Women and Children \u201cRaba Voca&#8220; &#8211; Mitrovica, organized an advocacy campaign on raising awareness of women about their rights. Respecting the physical distance, with masks on and a limited number of participants, Raba Voca has raised its voice against gender based violence in Kosovo. 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