V-Day—Center for Women War Victims partnership

The V-Day—Center for Women War Victims partnership linked V-Day’s support in Croatia to a planned rape crisis center and training for women assisting survivors in other war-affected regions. Its stated scope reached beyond opening a center: the work was also meant to equip women in Kosova and Chechnya to support women who had been raped and traumatized during war.

Partnership and Planned Center

The account describes V-Day working with the Center for Women War Victims in Croatia. With V-Day’s support, the center was to open the first rape crisis center in the former Yugoslavia, making the partnership an effort to establish dedicated support for survivors in a region marked by wartime sexual violence.

Training Beyond Croatia

The planned center was also to train women in Kosova and Chechnya to work with women in their own countries who had experienced rape and trauma during war. The arrangement thus joined local institutional capacity in Croatia to a wider regional purpose: preparing women to assist survivors across borders. The account identifies these as intended outcomes; it does not report that the center had already opened or that the training had been completed.

Place in V-Day’s Work

The partnership appears among V-Day’s wider efforts to address violence against women through support for local organizations and programs. Its particular significance lies in the combination of a proposed crisis center and survivor-support training: the work was designed not only to provide a place for assistance, but also to extend the capacity to offer it in Kosova and Chechnya.