UN Women ECORO operates in two diverse regions rich in language, culture and history. Its mandate is to support the transition towards more equal, peaceful and just societies by promoting gender balance in decision-making, advancing data-driven change on gender, ending violence against women and girls, transforming harmful norms and stereotypes and ensuring that women and girls can influence and build lasting peace.
Tina Chertová
Tina Chertova, 35, is an artisan designer from Tbilisi, Georgia, who has been fighting for women’s rights in her country for over a decade. Its main goal is to build a better future for new generations and make essential information accessible to anyone in need.
She has created works for various festivals and projects, including the urban art festival Fabrikaffiti, Georgia “Made by Characters” JWT Metro, “Who is dating who” (on LGBT rights), “#13 June” memorial of floods in Georgia. , the comic series “Social Workers for Safe Families” as well as the “Dreamer” statue to commemorate the August 8 War.
Chertova is the author of the social project Dreamingstan, which promotes the development of feminism in the country and she contributed to the development of initiatives providing visual information on human rights. She is the owner of the family start-up Chertova, which supplies handmade toys for charity events and orphanages.
Natasha Konjević
Nataša Konjević is a freelance illustrator and muralist based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated in 2012 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Banja Luka and received her master’s degree in 2018 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She has painted murals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Belgium, Germany and Italy, and has been actively involved in this discipline since 2012.
During these years she received awards for her work, among them Paola de Maninkor – award for the best mural in Prijedor in 2013. She also participated in many international festivals and workshops on the theme of street art.
Nataša has organized 7 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 30 group exhibitions and led a few workshops on the theme of murals, illustrations and comics. In addition to murals, she has illustrated several books and is the author and illustrator of the award-winning children’s book Really Unreal Stories, which she hopes to one day publish.
