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No shelter centers for abused women in North Macedonia’s Polog region – victims get refuge in other cities

“Violence against women” is understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender‐based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts," state Article 3 of the Council of Europe Convention on...

Violence against women has been promoted in the Balkans through popular music for 40 years

Ana Ninković, a student at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade caused numerous reactions on the social networks with her documentary film "Violence against women in the domestic songs" that she produced for her exam in "Pop Culture: From digital to trans-media", and through which she is examining the violence against women through music, turbo-folk, pop, rap and...

Court in North Macedonia acquits victim of domestic violence who killed her torturer

The Basic Court - Veles yesterday acquitted 23-year old Pale Iloska from Veles, who last year stabbed and murdered her violent partner in self-defense last year. She was accused of involuntary manslaughter. In her ruling, Judge Gabriela Gajdova, stated that Iloska was brought to a life-threatening situation because at that moment she was being strangled and abused by her unwed...

Donations collected for electricity bills of Pale Iloska, domestic violence victim from North Macedonia

In less than 48 hours, MKD 42 750 were collected and will be paid to EVN's bank account for the debt of Pale Iloska from Veles, North Macedonia, the National Network Against the Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence announced. They expressed their gratitude to everyone who contributed and made it possible for this woman to have electricity in...

OSCE: Only 2% of women who experienced domestic violence reported it to police

Looking through the OSCE report, one detail really concerned me - only 2% of women surveyed who have experienced violence at the hands of their partners reported what they considered their most serious incident to the police. We must change this urgently. This was stated by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who together with Minister for Labour and Social Policy Mia...

Statistics from MOI: Mostly men commit domestic violence, and women are the most common victims

In the first six months of this year, the police filed criminal charges against a total of 388 people suspected of domestic violence, according to statistics from the Ministry of Interior. Of the total number of the perpetrators of this crime, according to the statistics, 94% are men. In most of the reported cases or in a total of 161...