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The Citizens’ Association of Women for Peace is a human rights organisation founded in 2007 in Leskovac, Serbia. The human rights organisation runs a hotline for women and child victims of domestic violence and works with empowering women survivors. Their mission is to promote, educate and protect women’s rights, with a commitment to building peace and non-violence.
Human rights defenders in Serbia operate in a hostile environment. They are subjected to online threats, harassment, intimidation and attacks from government officials, non-state actors and pro-government media. Women and LGBTI+ rights defenders are often sexualised and are targets of misogynistic and discriminatory smear campaigns. Cases of threats, physical and verbal attacks and intimidation which are reported are often not effectively investigated, and perpetrators are rarely identified and prosecuted.
