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More than 1400 signatories in the Atlas!

The Observatory has updated the Atlas and is happy to announce that we have for the first time two new signatories in Croatia (the municipality of Delnice that signed on the 21st of March 2014 and the municipality of Opatija that signed on the 29th of May 2014). We also welcome new signatories in Finland (Nykarleby), France (Conseil Général de l’Allier, Ville de Seyssins), Portugal (Leiria, Mourao Gondomar, Penela, Celorico de Basto ), Serbia (Vracar) and Spain (Galdakao).

The Assembly of Municipality of Vračar (one out of 17 city municipalities in Belgrade) adopted the European Charter for Equality on the 27th of June, the same day as the municipality inaugurated the memorial to Sofija Soja Jovanović, the first woman movie director in Serbia.

Nina Živanović, Coordinator for the Gender Equality Office of Municipality of Vračar, recalled in her speech that in 1922, when Soja Jovanović was born, women in Serbia didn’t have the right to vote nor did they direct movies or plays. It was even hard to imagine at this time that the situation would be different in the future. However, despite progress during last decades there is still much that needs to be done today in the area of gender equality in all spheres of society. Furthermore, Nina Živanović, suggested to borrow a motto of Soja Jovanović,“Impossible doesn’t exist, there are no excuses” to reaffirm that even if some people think that full gender equality is impossible to achieve, there are no excuses, we must continue working towards achieving a more equal society.