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CURE Foundation marks an informal Day of Remembrance of women victims of war

FENA Muamer Selimbegovic

SARAJEVO, December 9 (FENA) - An informal Day of Remembrance of Women Victims of the Last War (1992-1995) was marked yesterday at the Market Square in Sarajevo with a street campaign of distribution of flowers and informative materials.

The event under the slogan "Stop the policy of eradication and oblivion", within the framework of the "Peace with Women's Face" initiative, was organized by the CURE Foundation together with volunteers and members of the Sinapsa Psychology Students Association.

An activist of the CURE Foundation, Vildana Džekman, said that they organized street campaigns as part of the mentioned initiative in 12 BiH communities with the aim of advocating towards competent institutions to declare December 8 as the Day of remembrance of women who were killed during the war.

"We sent an initiative to the Gender Equality Commission at the state level a few years ago. Unfortunately, our initiative was not supported and we have not been answered under the set procedure," said Džekman, adding that this initiative has been amended in the meantime to include petitions by citizens and forwarded once again for public advocacy. 

She emphasized the importance of fostering a culture of remembering, reminding women that they were directly affected by the war events in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.

As previously announced from the CURE Foundation, the initiative to mark December 8 as the Day of Remembrance of Women Victims of the Last War was launched with the aim of shedding light on (in)visibility of women who were killed in the war, with the intention to be officially recognized by the competent state institutions.

In the period from 1992 to 1995, according to still incomplete data, more than 9,000 women were killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

According to the records of the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center (published in the Bosnian Book of the Dead), women account for 10.31 percent of the total number of war victims or about 25 percent (one-fourth) of all civilian victims of war.

(FENA) S. R.

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