The Association of Roma Novi Becej as a part of the project "Speak up - It's your turn!" which is supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade and the UNWOMEN office in Serbia placed billboards on 3 locations in Vojvodina with the message "We are with you!" Report - support exists".
The Association of Roma Novi Becej as a part of the project "Speak up - It's your turn!" which is supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade and the UNWOMEN office in Serbia placed billboards on 2 locations in Vojvodina with the message "We are with you!" Report - support exists".
Association of Roma Novi Becej as a part of the project "Speak up - it's your turn!" supported by the Norwegian Embassy and the UNWOMEN office in Serbia held on 04.07.2022. in Novi Sad, round table "Examples of good practice in the process of improving institutional responses for the protection of women from gender-based violence on local level".
The Association of Roma Novi Becej is 18.5.2022., held the round table in the assembly hall in Novi Becej. The round table was opened by the president of the Association, Danica Jovanović recalled that today is the Day of remembrance of murdered women, and pointed on statistical data on Femicide in Serbia, as well as the fact that since the beginning of 2022 until this date, 13 women have been murdered in Serbia. All present gave a minute of silence in honor of all murdered women, victims of femicide.
The Association of Roma Novi Becej, in cooperation with the Roma Women's Center "Bibija" from Belgrade, organize training for members of the Roma community for the jobs of forklift drivers and make-up artists.
In recent months, the Roma Association Novi Becej had implemented the project "Supporting Roma communities for equal access to rights", which was financed within the program "EU for you!" and the project implemented by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the organization A 11, the Serbian Roma Forum and Center for Public Policy.
Today, the Multiethnic Feminist Network of Vojvodina supported the Roma community in Ukraine and the Ukrainian people because of Russia's invasion of that country. "We want to send messages of support to the Ukrainian people, as well as to the Roma community that is there and surviving various forms of torture, trauma, racism and discrimination," said Vesna Cerimovic of the Novi Becej Roma Association.
On the occasion of the International Day against Racism, the Association of Roma Novi Becej today as it did in previous years points out to the domestic and partner violence, racism and discrimination, human rights violations, arranged child marriages and to the importance of education.
Vesna Ćerimović, activist of the Roma Association Novi Bečej - SOS Helpline on languages of national minorities was a guest on the show "We today" on the TV channel K1 on March 16th, 2022. She spoke about the problems that activists and SOS consultants face in their work on prevention and protection of girls from child marriages.
The Campaign "Month of Roma Women's Activism" is implemented from March 8th to April 8th every year, and this year the Multiethnic Feminist Network of Vojvodina will implement six actions "At the Coffee, Against Gender-based Violence and Discrimination", within the project "Improving Safety of Women in Serbia - You are not alone”, supported by the Norwegian government and the UNWOMEN office in Serbia.