Women's Room - Center for Sexual Rights

National Network
Croatia
Address

Maksimirska 51 a
Zagreb
Croatia

Telephone
+3851 61 19 174
Telephone (other)
+3851 61 19 444
Fax
+3851 61 19 175
E-Mail
zenska.soba@zenskasoba.hr
Mobile Phone
+38591 61 19 222
Mobile Phone (other)
+38591 61 61 223
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2002
Fields of Activity
  1. Gender
General Information
Women's Room has 5 employees (Coordinator of the organization, Coordinator of Center for Victims of Sexual Violence, Finance and Office Cordinator, Coordinator of Educational Program and assistent on the program) on full time. In 2008 Women's Room had a total budget of 1.173.911,00 kunas from different funders, such as PHARE 2006, Global Fund for Women, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, Office for Human Rigths, Kvinna till Kvinna, National Fundation for Civil Society Development, Ministry of Health and Social Care, City of Zagreba. At the moment Women's Room has 13 projects/programs, some of them are Zero Tolerance toward Sexual Violence which has an overall objective to improve quality of life of victims sexual violence; YES! For Protocol!( overall objective: implementing Protocol of conducting in case of a sexual violence). Partners of Women's Room are mostly other nongovernmental organizations through the region and goovernmental institutions as Office for Gender Equality.
Mission and Objectives

- Active advocacy against all forms of sex-, gender- and sexual
discrimination;
- Empowering women in their active seeking and protection of basic human
rights;
- Promotion and protection of sexual rights in accordance with the
Declaration of Sexual Rights;
- Introducing comprehensive sexual education based on scientific facts
at all levels of education;
- Promotion of positive attitudes about women's sexuality, sexual health
and freedom of choice;
- Active advocacy against discrimination on the basis of gender
expression and/or identity, sexual orientation and inter-sexual
characteristics;
- Prevention of sexual violence against women, sexual- and gender
minorities;
- Providing direct help to women, survivors of sexual violence;
- Empowerment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersexual and
queer (LGBTIQ) population on demanding their basic human rights.

Main Projects / Activities

Project title: Zero Tolerance Towards Sexual Violence
Object and results of the action:
the objective of the project is the development and implementation of public policies related to human rights of victims of sexual violence and increasing quality of life of survivors of sexual violence by insuring direct and indirect assistance and support.
The result is the process of developing the Protocol of conduct in cases of sexual violence, the education of professionals that work in this field, as well as the young people and students. Also, the development of local actions related to prevention and awareness of sexual violence through cooperation with the community based organizations and institutions.

Contact (1) Full Name
Maja Mamula
Head of the organisation
Maja Mamula
Contact (2) Full Name
Maja Vukmanic