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Pointing out the efforts and shortcomings in B&H policies related to the integration of Roma men and women, the Roma women's network "Uspjeh „ has developed a Platform for Improving the Rights and Position of Roma Women as mechanisms for advocating effective practices for recognizing, monitoring and preventing various forms of discrimination against Roma women. The recommendations of Roma women's organizations are:
Recommendation 1.
Within the existing policies, strategies and plans create specific measures related to the suppression of domestic violence in Roma communities, especially for the suppression of violence against Roma women.
Pointing out the efforts and shortcomings in B&H policies related to the integration of Roma men and women, the Roma women's network "Uspjeh „ has developed a Platform for Improving the Rights and Position of Roma Women as mechanisms for advocating effective practices for recognizing, monitoring and preventing various forms of discrimination against Roma women. The recommendations of Roma women's organizations are:
Recommendation 2.
Strengthening the Department for Minorities in the BiH Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees and the Agency for Gender Equality to process complaints from Roma men and women and their associations and coordinate victim support activities and identify discrimination schemes, including institutional and hidden discrimination.
Pointing out the efforts and shortcomings in B&H policies related to the integration of Roma men and women, the Roma women's network "Uspjeh „ has developed a Platform for Improving the Rights and Position of Roma Women as mechanisms for advocating effective practices for recognizing, monitoring and preventing various forms of discrimination against Roma women. The recommendations of Roma women's organizations are:
Recommendation 1.
Reviewing the possibility of improving regulations and their implementation, as well as revising programs and measures in existing strategic documents to improve the position of Roma women.
Roma women association "Bolja buducnost" Tuzla Tuzla is the winner of the SUPER Women SOLIDARITY 2020! Award for solidarity and commitment during the crisis caused by the COVID 19 virus pandemic.
From October 8 to 11, 2020, the III International Festival of Contemporary Women was held in Tuzla, which presented over a hundred of the most influential women from around the world who excel in the economy, politics, science, marketing, culture, art, fashion, health, sports, media and many other areas. In addition to keynote speakers, panel discussions, fireside chat, mentoring, programs in online and offline mode, SUPER women SOLIDARITY awards were given to all heroes who showed empathy during the crisis and helped the vulnerable in their communities.
Within the project "Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labor exploitation is happening - Recognize and protect yourself", the Lara Foundation, in cooperation with members of the Network of BiH NGOs for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings RING, is implementing the campaign "Between Good Job and Modern Slavery - How is happening and what can you do? ”in order to encourage citizens to report suspicious job advertisements, inform them about their rights and institutions / organizations that they can turn to for help in situations when they encounter suspicious job offers or when are in a work engagement that goes beyond acceptable and legal relationships with workers.
On September 30, 2020, in cooperation with HO Horizonti Tuzla, we organized a public forum "Between good work and modern slavery - How does it happen and what can you do?"
The public forum was attended by representatives of institutions, NGOs Tuzla and citizens of the City of Tuzla
In partnership with the European Union and the Council of Europe, we are fighting discrimination and violence! Through the work of Roma mediators and work in the Roma community, we inform Roma women and girls about their rights during the COVID 19 pandemic and the mechanisms for protection against violence and discrimination.
"It's good to have information, I didn't know that I could report the discrimination I experienced when everything was closed because I thought no one was working," a Roma woman from the Roma community in Kiseljak near Tuzla told us.
Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey – For your rights, towards European standards .
The Association of Roma Women "Bolja buducnost" Tuzla in cooperation with the Roma women;s network "Uspjeh" organized a visit to the Donja Gradina memorial on August 2nd. August 2 is marked as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On that day in 1944, the Nazis sent 2,897 Roma to the gas chambers in the Auschwitz camp. This date has also been accepted by the Council of Europe and is celebrated throughout Europe. It is estimated that more than 500,000 Roma were killed during World War II, but the final number will never be determined. At the site of the suffering of Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists and others in Donja Gradina, there is a mass grave in which the then NDH buried about 40,000 Roma men and women of all ages killed with mallets, daggers, axes, hammers, ropes and other means. Of the 40,000 Roma brutally executed, most were children, women and the elderly.By marking this date, we pay tribute to and remember the victims of the Second World War, as well as other innocent victims, and we invite you to join us in our efforts to ensure that innocent victims, as well as crime, are never forgotten or repeated.
Thanks to the financial support of the Open Society Fund B&H and with their approval, funds for certain activities that cannot be realized in emergency situation in the current project are relocated for mitigating the consequences caused by the COVID 19 virus within Roma communities and support to women in the form of emergency humanitarian interventions. On that occasion and as part of this support, our organization in with available funds, procured and distributed food and hygiene packages for 40 Roma families in Tuzla, Gracanica (Skahovica) and Lukavac. Through these activities, we continues to support women, especially those from marginalized groups, and this is in special compliance with the AP UNSCR 1325 for the period 2018-2020 and is within the medium-term goal 2.3. “Improved gender-responsive approach and support systems in the context of current security threats and challenges and contributes to achieving the expected result 2.3.2 Created preventive measures and established conditions for gender-responsive access to current security threats and challenges, and in crisis and emergency situations through support activities for women and girls, especially members of multiple marginalized groups, in cases of crisis and emergency.
"Being Roma woman is not just about being a number in strategies and documents, but also being an equal member of the community who can be elected, but also being able to choose." Indira Bajramovic,Director of Roma women association "Bolja buducnost" Tuzla
The message in the campaign month of Roma women activism 2020. An online campaign supported by the OSCE Mission to BiH
Without Roma women in decision-making bodies, the quality of our lives will remain the same in the future. We don't want that! Aldijana Musli
Message from an online campaign supported by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina within month of Roma women's activism 2020.
On 11 March 2020, the Tuzla Community Foundation organized a forum on the role of women in the development of local democracy. The aim of the Forum was to update the topic of gender equality and to encourage women to become more involved in community life and fight for their rights, but also to raise awareness of the under-representation of women in decision-making processes.
The forum was held on the premises of the Kiseljak Community Center. Panelists were Indira Bajramovic, president of the Roma Women Association "Bolja buducnost" , Aida Mustacevic Cipurkovic, educator and psychotherapist at Vive zene Tuzla, Amela Kukuruzovic, educator at Kiseljak Elementary School, Azra Beganovic, member of the Tuzla City Council for housing and activist of the Young Roma Club.
One of the conclusions of this Forum is: The fight for gender equality must start from the beginning - from our birth through all the social systems in which we learn and educate: family, school, work, politics - systems that are built on the values of patriarchy.
A significant resource in all are civil society organizations offering their information, education and support programs with their capacities, but these CSO' cannot take the responsibility of institutional systems in providing services and creating the conditions for equality.