Marking today "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women", company IKEA is in collaboration with the association Baby, in a test house at Ilica 42, exhibited the silhouettes of 18 women killed in the past 18 months by male family members. In addition to the silhouettes, IKEA also joined the global campaign with the exhibition "Abusive Relationships Are Bad", which was realized in collaboration with the Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI) "16 days of activism against violence against women"The exhibition showcased the works of students from the Sisak High School, the Đurđevac Vocational School and the "Fran Galović" High School. The speeches were given by Sanja Sarnavka, president of the BaBe association., Renata Odeljan, member of the National Team for the Prevention and Suppression of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women and on behalf of CESI Marijana Milas, professor at Sisak High School. "It is a sad fact that today we are repeating the action we did 15 years ago, with the difference that we had fewer silhouettes then, which were initially exhibited on Ban Josip Jelačić Square, and then they traveled for sixteen days thanks to the Women's Network of Croatia. Today we are exhibiting 18 silhouettes here, 18 women killed in domestic violence. As you can see, there is no age limit, so the youngest victim was only 4 years old, and the oldest was 79 years old. These 18 women were killed by their marital or extramarital partners, a girl was killed by her father, and one woman was killed by her ex-husband, which shows that it is often not enough to divorce or leave a violent relationship if a good mechanism for protecting the victim is not ensured," warned Sanja Sarnavka, concluding that domestic violence is a huge problem in Croatia. Renata Odeljan pointed out the importance of establishing the National Team for the Prevention and Suppression of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women. "One of the very important measures for the prevention of domestic violence is the establishment of the National Team, whose task is to work on prevention and joint education in coordination with the county teams. A whole series of trainings have just been completed, which have indeed proven to be successful," Odeljan points out and continues: "in one of the last 10 years, we did not have any activities of the National Team itself due to problems in certain departments, and then that year we had a larger number of murdered women." The lesson, he says, is that "we must continuously implement preventive activities and work together to plan all the steps."
