CURE Foundation: Invitation to Join Protests

Fondacija CURE (Foundation GIRLS)

The BH DANI news magazine and CURE Foundation will organize a protest against the scandalous decision of the Sarajevo Cantonal Court to exonerate Vlado Adamovic from the charges of violation of the Law on Gender Equality. The protest is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at noon, in front of the Cantonal Court Building in Sarajevo.

The organizers invite all organizations, associations, individiual citizens and groups to join the protest, to prevent similar decisions and ruling from taking place in the future.

The organizers ask the interested organizations to contact them as soon as possible, if they wish to have their names listed on call for protest and/or list of supporters, by electronic mail to belma@bhdani.com.

Vlado Adamovic, a Judge of the Constitutional Court, was found guilty, on March 8, 2007, by the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, on charges of sexual harassment of S.S. (18 years of age) at her workplace in a florist shop in Grbavica, Sarajevo.

Nine months later, the three-member Chamber of the Cantonal Court reversed the decision of the Municipal Court. Katarina Tomic, Dzenana Latic and Jasmina Kosovic based their decision on the fact that Adamovic couldn�t have perpetrated sexual harassment because was not, in her workplace, Adamovic�s subordinate! The decision practically legalizes sexual discrimination and give legitimacy to unjustified immunity from prosecution enjoyed by judicial and political figures in positions of power.

The organizers invite all people who share their view to come to the protest against chauvinism in higher institutions of power and practices that encourage sexual harassment.