This year, for the fourth time, Women's Space organized Feminist Summer School which was held from July 17th through 22nd in Kladovo, East Serbia. The goal of this event was to support young women empowerment and provide education through different topics of the feminist movement. Special attention was paid to patriarchate deconstruction and its mechanisms used to preserve domination and status quo. Moreover, we discussed violence against women as the most explicit and dominant form of this power demonstration.
Within "LGBT Youth" project, an one day seminar was held on June 16th 2012 in Niš. This event was organized by Women's Space activists and within the premises of Center for Girls with the total of 18 participants from Niš, Vranje and Prokuplje. Three of the participants were from nongovernmental organizations, three from political parties (LDP, SDP and the Green Party) whereas others represented themselves as students.
The extreme right today gathers groups and individuals that have exaggerated in their conservatism and nationalism, even to the taste of the "regular" right we see in all parliamentary democracies now. The mainstream policy theory states that extreme right also produces the existence left. Is the contemporary resistance to the extreme right also extreme political action? What are the consequences of such understanding of existence and sprouting of new antifascist groups in Ex Yu?
Women's Space and Roma Women Network activist participated in the consultations with the European Commission and contributed to the Progress Report of Serbia to European Union membership. Since March 2002 the European Commission provides regular reports to the European Council and the European Parliament regarding western Balkan region countries progress and civil society representatives participate in writing reports considering human rights in Serbia.
This year, Women's Space again organizes Feminist Summer School from July 17th through 22nd in Kladovo. This school is designed for young women to develop feminist and critical thinking through analyzing adn rethinking current social and political problems from different angles.
Niš Public Theatre was packed last Thursday, April 5th and, to organizers' great regret, too small to accept all those interested to see Vagina Monologues performed by actresses Ana Sofrenović and Katarina Gojković and supported by activists from our city. As expected, the audience consisted mostly of women from diferent age groups - from high school pupils to senior citizens.
Within the period March 8th through April 8th, organizations and informal groups of Roma Women Network of Serbia have successfully organized and implemented the campaign "Month of Roma Women Activism" for the third time. This year's campaign was comprised of 33 events, implemented in over 30 Serbian towns and municipalities and with a goal to increase visibility of Roma women activist work and their activism results and to direct public attention to the Roma women position within our society.
