Eleven women died in domestic violence in Serbia since the start of 2021

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The president of Serbia's Coordination Body for Gender Equality, Zorana Mihajlovic, said on Monday that since the beginning of the year, 11 women had been killed in domestic and partner violence, leaving 14 children behind.

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After the delivery of 40,000 Dollars worth of contracts for financing projects of eight NGOs to help SOS telephone support service, the UNDP Resident Representative in Serbia, Francine Pickup, said that joint work would continue to encourage women to report violence.

"One of the tasks will be to provide continuous support to organisations that can improve the fight against violence with their experience," she said.

Pickup added that "now more women report violence, 30 percent more during the coronavirus pandemic, but we still have cases when women decide not to take that step, and we have to help them in that."

Ola Andersson, the Swedish Embassy to Belgrade Counsellor Head of Development Cooperation, said that "the elimination of violence against women coincides with our basic foreign policy principles. Furthermore, this program is good because it provides the possibility of local and central institutional support to organisations that fight violence."

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