The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Neth- erlands in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [...] In 2022, for example, the Church organized significant opposition to Pride, including by encouraging adherents to gather in the capital city of Podgorica to pray for the preservation of the sanctity of marriage and the family. [...] For example, Mladjenovic and Hughes have explored the impact of the feminist movement in Serbia during and after the wars of the 1990s, finding that feminist activists were at the centre of resistance to these wars, including by documenting and exposing war crimes committed against women, organizing mass protests, providing support to survivors of wartime sexual violence, and advocating for the le. [...] Open dialogue among women of different eth- nicities played a significant role in challenging the gendered dimensions of the war and violence and in advocating for gender equality and women’s rights.69 This kind of dialogue is needed in the region now among women, to resist the gendered narratives and actions of the far right. [...] The authors situate the misog- ynistic actions, including hate speech, of actors both on the fringes and the mainstreams in BiH and the Western Balkans, and highlights why extremism needs to increasingly be understood, analyzed and addressed through the lens of gender.
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