The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' and Social Affairs announced, during the 16 days of activism against violence against women, the founding of the National SOS helpline for women victims of violence - a telephone that the state of Serbia was obliged to establish in October 2013. when it ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. The Ministry has announced two vacancies for the National SOS helpline and both vacancies have been withdrawn. The National SOS helpline 0800/222003 which has been publicly announced, when you call, gives you the information: "All operators are currently occupied". Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center explains The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' and Social Affairs’ intentions from the point of view of women's nongovernmental organizations, which have been in Serbia for more than two decades and provide an SOS helpline to women who are victims of violence.
The text by Vanja Macanović, which is an integral part of the twelfth issue of the Informer on chapters 23 and 24 of the rEUformator, is available on this link.