National Campaign to prevent gender based violence -“Silence is not gold” (“Šutnja nije zlato”)

The campaign has been carried out with a financial help of European Commission, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport and CARE International.

It included following activities:

? Research (in order to gain information on recognition, understanding and frequency of gender based violence among adolescents)

? Media campaign based on research results (the main goal was to raise public awareness, especial of youth on different types of violence while the main themes of campaign were: family violence, violence in relationship/rape at date and human trafficking; TV spots have been broadcasted and different print materials have been distributed e.g. billboards, city-lights, journal advertisements; campaign web page have been issued)

? Education and information (teachers have participated at seminars in order to enhance their skills and knowledge on gender based violence in order to work more effectively with young people)

? Creative workshops with young people on the issue of gender based violence (after the teachers have been educated, in the following period of five months they have realised at least one project on the issue of gender based violence with their students e. g. film, comic, play…; that has been presented at final gathering and on the CD)

? Public discussion with known young people

? Presentation of work of young people (at the final ceremony their works have been awarded)

? Advocating and public policies (inclusion of gender perspective in different prevention programs for youth)

Web page of the campaign: http://www.sezamweb.net/sutnjanijezlato//index.php?option=com_frontpage&...