Addressing the event, activist Sanja Sarnavka presented a publication on the media coverage of femicide in the period from 2012 to 2016, made as part of a project designed to improve the work of institutions for the prevention of violence against women.
The publication includes a survey of the media coverage of cases of murder of women in the Jutarnji List, Vecernji List and Slobodna Dalmacija dailies.
According to police data, in the 2012-2016 period, 90 women were murdered - 72 were killed by persons close to them, 38 were murdered by then or former spouses or common law partners, and five by then or former boyfriends.
In the surveyed newspapers, 753 articles on femicide were found and analysed.
Sarnavka underlined that the reports were characterised by a scarcity of data and facts.
According to a media analysis done by Gender Equality Ombudswoman Visnja Ljubicic, the topic that has been most frequently reported about, for the second year in a row, is violence against women and domestic violence (38%). However, media reporting continues to be sensationalist and often directly or indirectly shifts responsibility from the perpetrator to the victim, she said.