Tag: gender balance

The Public Prosecution office in Skopje submitted an indictment against Dragan Pavlovic – Latas and Stefan Lazarov for spreading racist and xenophobic material via an information system. Without specifying their names, the Public Prosecution informed that two persons were accused of spreading racist and xenophobic material via an information system through an idea that promoted violence against women thereby causing...

Zhivka Gjurchinovska is a woman who has no problem driving a tractor. She is a diligent farmer and a mother of three. They live in the village of Tumchevishte, in the Gostivar area in the northwestern part of North Macedonia. Gjurchinovska has been a farmer for the past 20 years and a professional farmer in the past 11 year. She...

The Gender Equality Platform calls on candidates for the local elections to commit to gender balance. They recall that in 1996 and 2009, no woman was elected mayor, and in the last local elections, in 2013, 19 mayors more were elected rather than female mayors (76 men versus four women). "Despite the declarative efforts, we remind that in the composition of...