WPON Experience Shared as an Example of a Good Practice in Association Building

Sanja Sumonja, Executive Committee Chair of the Women Police Officers Network in South East Europe (WPON) and Inspector of the Ministry of Interior Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and ...

WPON presented the new “Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Policing with a Particular Focus on Recruitment, Selection and Professional Development of Women in Police Services” at the Belgrade Security Forum

The Women Police Officers Network in Southeast Europe (WPON) officially launched the new Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Policing with a Particular Focus on Recruitment, Selection and Professional ...

Representatives of the Ministries of Defense from the Western Balkans Visit the Swedish Armed Forces to Learn about Gender Mainstreaming Practices

Representatives of the Ministries of Defence (MoD) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated in a study visit to the Swedish Armed Forces from ...

WPON Executive Committee Chair presents the Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Policing Practice at International Association of Women Police Annual Conference in Newfoundland, Canada

Ms. Sanja Sumonja, WPON Executive Committee Chair and Inspector in the Ministry of Interior Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, participated at the U.S. Department of State, Office of Criminal ...

Launch of SEESAC Pilot Project Targeting Weapons (Oružje na meti)

On 6 September 2012 UNDP/SEESAC launched its new project “Targeting Weapons“ (“Oružžje na meti”). WWW.ORUZJENAMETI.ORG An innovative project, “Targeting weapons” aims to use new technologies and ...

Meeting with the first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the Republic of Serbia

On 24 August 2012 Mr. William Infante, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Serbia, met with the first Deputy Prime Minister ...

Risks Presented by Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Decreasing in Montenegro

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In an interview for the Montenegrin magazine Pobjeda, Lieutenant Colonel Vukadin Tomasevic, an advisor to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Montenegro, reported on the current progress of arms ...

Women in the police: challenging stereotypes

by Danijela Djurovic, Project Officer/Advisor This summer, we organized three seminars on gender equality in the security sector, at the request of the Ministry of Interior. Part of the work ...

First Doors Installed in Derventa: the Upgrade of SALW and Ammunition Storages in Bosnia and Herzegovina Begins

The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina (MoD) and UNDP/SEESAC, with the support of UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina, begun their joint work on improving SALW and ammunition storages in Bosnia and ...

Call for an Amnesty Would Help with the Collection of Illegal Weapons

The recent raid in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, during which authorities found and seized a significant amount of weapons in the house of a man suspected of producing and selling weapons and explosive ...