Serbia’s Femicide Crisis
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Violence against women is a persistent problem in Serbia. The numbers aren’t clear, but in the last decade more than 330 women have been murdered by men, mostly partners or close family members. Already this year, more than twenty women have been murdered and countless others abused. According to some studies, 1 in 3 women has experienced physical violence, and almost half of all women have endured psychological violence. In November 2016 the Serbian Parliament adopted a new law on the Prevention Of Domestic Violence, introducing a series of legal and protection measures. The legal aspects were aimed at meeting the standards set by the Council Of Europe Convention On Domestic Violence, ratified by Serbia in 2013. Despite the new law coming into force in June 2017, reported gender-based violence is on the rise. As Serbia continues its negotiations to join the European Union, Nicola Kelly reports from Belgrade on the progress to address violence against women. She speaks to victims of abuse and relatives of those killed and asks what more can be done to address what critics say are systemic institutional failings. Reporter: Nicola Kelly Image: Red shoes in the green meadow, the symbol of the violence against women. Credit: Buffy1982/Getty
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| 0:00.0 | Tiana was a very modest. |
| 0:05.0 | Tiana was a very modest child. |
| 0:15.0 | She had the soul of an artist and really loved to sing. |
| 0:19.0 | She was enrolled at music college, played the cello and was going to study folks song. |
| 0:27.0 | At home she would sing non-stop and I'd often tell her to stop because he was |
| 0:34.8 | driving us crazy but now I miss it so much. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm I'm I miss it so much. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Nicola Kelly and for assignment on the BBC World Service I've come to Serbia. |
| 0:47.0 | I meet Igor Jurich in Liberty Square in the center of Novi Sad, Serbia's second biggest city |
| 0:56.7 | an hour's drive north of the capital Belgrade. |
| 1:00.4 | He's a powerfully built, softly spoken man. |
| 1:04.0 | There's steely determination in his slate grey eyes as he tells me about the events of the |
| 1:09.0 | night of the 26th of July 2014. |
| 1:22.0 | Earlier that day his 15 year old daughter Tiana had returned from her summer break in Montenegro and was staying with her grandparents for a few days. There was a local football tournament in town and |
| 1:25.3 | Tiana's friends rang her, inviting her to join them there. |
| 1:30.8 | She was hesitant because she wanted to tell her mother about her holiday, but she also wanted to be with her friends. |
| 1:37.0 | And unfortunately, she decided to go and watch the football. |
| 1:41.0 | After the matches ended, she set out for home and was nearly there. |
| 1:46.0 | This was about half past midnight. |
| 1:48.7 | Then she realized she'd forgotten to give back a sweatshirt belonging to a football friend |
| 1:52.4 | of hers, so she decided to go back by herself to return it. |
| 1:56.5 | And it was in a dark spot just outside the football pitch that he saw her coming towards him. |
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