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The Group of Experts on Action Against Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence found little progress since their 2020 report despite Serbia ratifying the Istanbul Convention in 2013.

The push for greater gender equality in Serbia has been facing an intensified backlash from groups and organisations that advocate so-called traditional values stated the experts.

Explicit images of a student protester were published online and broadcast by at least one television channel after she accused a police officer of beating and threatening to rape her.

President Aleksandar Vucic’s right-wing government has conducted a broader clampdown on civil society groups and human rights activists previously highlighted by the Council of Europe’s rights commissioner.

Counselling long-term psychological support and trauma care remained largely unavailable across the country owing to a lack of government-funded crisis centres for women.

Law enforcement was also found lacking with several reports of officers acting without sensitivity professionalism and effectiveness when victims reported violence. – AFP

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