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Friday, 27 November 2015
36th Sitting of the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality
At the sitting held on 27 November, the members of the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality were briefed on the so-called Zrenjanin Model of fighting against domestic violence.
The Zrenjanin Model of fighting against domestic violence was presented by Slobodan Josimovic, Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad, and Mladen Vujin, Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Zrenjanin.
The sitting began with a minute of silence for the last victim of domestic violence in Zrenjanin, which happened on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and for all the other victims of domestic violence.
The deputy prosecutors presented the normative framework for the cooperation between social welfare centres, police, prosecution and the judiciary, and the principles and model of said cooperation.
In the ensuing a dialogue the representatives of other institutions from the territory of Zrenjanin and other municipalities presented their experiences and problems they come up against in the fight against domestic violence.
Committee Chairman Meho Omerovic said that the Committee would adopt conclusions at one of its coming sitting based on what they heard today and forward them to the relevant institutions for further processing.
The sitting was attended by the Mayor of Zrenjanin Cedomir Janjic, representatives of the executive, prosecution, police, judiciary and social welfare centres on the territory of AP Vojvodina.
The sitting was held outside of the National Assembly seat, in Zrenjanin, with the support of the OSCE Mission in Serbia.
The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairman Meho Omerovic.
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.00 - public hearing of the Culture and Information Committee on the topic: Public interview with the proposed candidates for Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council members (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.30 - the PFG with Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta meets with the Italian delegation to the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Dimension (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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16.00 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Head of the EU Delegation to receive the EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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17.00 - press conference of the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own and Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)