On May 22, 2024, starting at 9:00 a.m., the first in a series of workshops for judicial officials was held at the Regional Center of the Judicial Academy in Varaždin, as part of the SURF&SOUND 2.0 project. The workshop was attended by 12 participants, employees of county and municipal courts and municipal and county state attorneys' offices from the Zagreb, Varaždin, Međimurje, Bjelovar-Bilogora, Virovitica-Podravina and Koprivnica-Križevci counties.
The workshop leaders were Krunoslav Stjepan Rajačić, Deputy County State Attorney at the County State Attorney's Office in Zagreb, Ivana Bilušić, Judge of the County Court in Velika Gorica, and Renato Grgurić, IT expert from the Ministry of the Interior.
The workshop provided an interdisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of online gender-based violence, as well as strategies for combating it, including providing support to victims with a gender-sensitive approach. Special emphasis was placed on the legal and IT aspects of the problem, with practical examples and knowledge of evidence collection and other specific skills related to the topic.
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.
