The 7th seminar for sportswomen coordinators entitled “The sports arena as a safe place for women and girls” was held in Bjelovar on June 9, 2015. The seminar took place at the Central Hotel under the direction of the Croatian Olympic Committee’s Commission for Women in Sports and the Bjelovar-Bilogora County Sports Community.
The main topic of the meeting was the experience with the application of measures to improve women’s status in sports, documents on gender equality of European and world organizations, and experience with gender equality in Bjelovar-Bilogora County. In that vein, the Office for Gender Equality Director Helena Štimac-Radin, MSc gave a lecture on “The experiences with applying the National Policy for Gender Equality measures for improving the status of women in sports in the period 2011-2015”, “The Rules of Procedure in Cases of Sexual Violence”, and “The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence”.
After her lecture, attendees had an opportunity to hear about and discuss the issue of harassment and abuse in sports and the measures for their prevention.
