Group of 22 post-graduate students and 3 staff members from Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit of the University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom visited Banja Luka in two weeks Study Visit: Post-war Recovery in Bosnia and Herzegovina Twenty Years After the Dayton Agreement.
Gender Equality from Young Men Initiative "Be a Men Club", Supporting the “16 days of Activism” Campaign to End Gender Based Violence.
CARE staff John Crownover and Natasa Bijelic from the Croatian NGO, Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI), a longtime collaborator of CARE’s participated at the 2nd Symposium “Steps for the Future Without Violence” – Violence and Youth on the 20th of November 2014 held in Opatija, Croatia.
We live in a world of profound inequalities and unbalanced power relations, where rigid norms and values about how people should behave fuel and exacerbate injustices.
CARE and its partners have a strategic planning two days session on the new project “Promoting Healthier Lifestyles among Youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Challenging Gender Stereotypes – Young Men Initiative”.
MenEngage is a global alliance of NGOs and UN agencies, including UNFPA, UN Women, CHSJ and Beijing +20, which act in order to engage boys and men in achieving gender equality.
A meeting of partner organizations from regional Young Men Initiative project (Boys and Men as Allies in Violence Prevention and Gender Transformation in the Western Balkans) was held in Zagreb on 20 September, 2014.
A crisis of masculinity needs to be addressed in order to see a reduction in sexual violence against women.
Perpetuum mobile – Centre for Youth and Community Development and RS Government Gender Centre organized Regional conference „Violence prevention among youth” on June 19th 2014 in Administrative centre of RS Government in Banja Luka.
Angelina Jolie, Hollywood star and special UN ambassador, hostess of the event, looked on as Saša Ostojić, representative of Banja Luka NGO Perpetuum Mobile spoke at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, held last night in London.
Navigating adolescence is a challenging period in all cultures. It’s a time when young people begin to find their identity, develop their values and confront the problems of the world around them on a personal level.
Saša Ostojić, a participant in the Young Men Initiative, asks: Who is a “real man” in the Balkans? The global image of Balkan men is not a good one. Decades of war and conflict have created a picture of us as very violent and aggressive.
Zvonko’s quiz has received a reward for the best project of primary prevention, within the preventing project “Living Life without Violence”.
Implemented over 700 activities in 30 cities across the region, and the program has included over 14 000 young people.
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