On October 23, 2024, from 9:00 to 15:00, at the premises of the Judicial Academy in Zagreb, Maksimirska cesta 63, the sixth workshop for judicial officials was held as part of the SURF&SOUND 2.0 project, with the aim of strengthening capacities to combat online violence against women. The workshop was attended by 17 participants.
Krunoslav Stjepan Rajačić, Deputy County State Attorney at the County State Attorney's Office in Zagreb, gave a presentation on the topic Criminal acts of violence against women committed via the Internet or with the use of information and communication technologies: legal qualification of acts committed online and presentation of the most common criminal acts committed online and their specificities, with an emphasis on the most common criminal offenses. Renato Grgurić, an expert in IT forensics from the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, gave a presentation on the collection of digital evidence and cross-border access to electronic (digital) evidence for the purpose of effectively prosecuting online violence against women and searches of holders of electronic (digital) evidence. Judge of the Velika Gorica County Court Ivana Bilušić gave a presentation on the topic of PThe European Court of Human Rights' ruling on the issue of online violence against women and examples from case law and concerns.
The project "SURF and SOUND 2.0" aims to enable systematic work on the protection of women victims of domestic and gender-based violence in the online environment, and is implemented by the BaBe association in partnership with the Agency for Electronic Media and associated partners, the Judicial Academy and the Police Directorate. The project is funded by the European Union from the CERF - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program and co-financed by the Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
