On September 27, 2024, the third in a series of workshops as part of the SURF&SOUND 2.0 project was held at the Regional Center of the Judicial Academy in Rijeka.
The workshop was intended for judicial officials, judges and state attorneys, with the aim of strengthening capacities to combat online violence against women, and 13 participants participated in its work. The participants are employees of the Municipal Court in Rijeka, the County Court in Rijeka, the Municipal State Attorney's Office in Rijeka, the County State Attorney's Office in Rijeka, the Municipal State Attorney's Office in Pazin, the Municipal State Attorney's Office in Pula, the County State Attorney's Office in Pula, and the Judicial Academy.
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. Judge of the Velika Gorica County Court Ivana Bilušić gave a presentation on the topic The case law of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the issue of online violence against women and Examples from case law and dilemmas.
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.
