16 February 2022
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 […]
14 February 2022
The significant gap between the genders in the fields of science and technology has been present for many years, but situation in recent years has started to improve, at least in North Macedonia. The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on the 11th of February since it was first established in […]
2 November 2021
In the runoff local elections in North Macedonia on Sunday, only two female candidates won enough votes to be elected mayors. The remaining 79 municipality mayor’s posts were taken by men. The exceptions are the future mayor of the capital Skopje, Danela Arsovska, who as an independent candidate was supported by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, […]
3 August 2021
This story by Timothy S. Rich, Alianna Casas and Carolyn Brueggemann originally appeared on Global Voices on August 2, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license. In Mexico, femicides increased by 137 percent between 2015 and 2020, with the government only formally tracking femicides as a specific crime in 2012. Mexico’s justice system […]
25 December 2020
The unemployment is a longstanding problem for Romani women in North Macedonia. Only 4 Romani women are at managerial positions in the 142 monitored public institutions and at other, non-managerial positions, they are present with only 0.47% out of the total number of the employees. Out of 7 647 persons that had been using the […]
8 April 2019
Twenty years ago, 5-10 percent of IT employees were women, but now the situation is significantly changing. According to Elizabeta Najkovska from “Microsoft”, in 2019 the percentage of women has risen to 40-45 percent and is growing. At the same time, interest is increasing in the sector amongst women, which until a year ago was […]
8 April 2019
The women initiative of Shuto Orizari is marking the International Romany day by alarming about the obstacles that Romany women face with in our country. “We can’t even manage to count the number of obstacles, but through the years it is clear that the biggest among those are the unemployment and the lack of medical […]
8 March 2018
Digitalization creates equal opportunities for all, regardless of gender, because the Internet recognizes only skills, knowledge and capabilities, said Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski at the first conference of its kind “The Digital Age and Women”, which took place today at the “Marriott” hotel. The main topic of the conference was the […]
25 September 2017
In 73% of Macedonian big and medium-sized enterprises, the owners are men and 67% of them are general managers, while women are managing around 33% of the companies and only 27% are owners. These are the results of the research of gender equality on managing positions in Macedonia, that the Institute for communication studies in […]
6 September 2017
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 […]
26 November 2016
Political parties who are running alone or who have joined coalitions in the upcoming parliamentary elections on December 11, seem to have forgotten the women MPs. Only four women found themselves as candidates on lists in the constituencies of political parties. Radmila Sekerinska of SDSM in constituency 5, Vesna Stoimenova from the Coalition for […]
25 January 2016
Not even one organization for women, reacted to speeches made by Nikola Gruevski and Daniela Rangelova, President of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE, at the party annual conference yesterday. The event was organized primarily for the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE, but not only were the women last in the welcoming speech of their […]
24 January 2016
VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski made a speech at the annual conference of the Union of Women in the hall “Boris Trajkovski”. According to him, someone is “using SDSM in a dirty way to destroy VMRO-DPMNE, to destabilize Macedonia, and change its model in the way of forcing their own interests.” “Everything was perfectly prepared, but as […]
23 January 2016
Municipal organization of SDSM in Kavadarci have accused the ruling party for attempting to fill 17 buses with women to attend the annual meeting of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE, on Sunday in Skopje. “Faced with a strong “no” from citizens, the campaign began to put pressure on women employed in the municipal administration […]
19 August 2015
At the moment, nearby the train station in Gevgelija, crews are working on a resting area that can accommodate 160 people. The area will be intended for women, children and people who have become frail from the journey. The area will operate 24 hours and will be under constant police surveillance. There are going to […]
8 March 2015
Without full gender equality, there is no democracy or social justice, is the message that is sent by the leftist movement “Solidarity” on the occasion of 8th of March, International Women’s Day. – Our society is still hostage to traditional and patriarchal mechanisms of thinking and living. They play a key role in policy-making, adoption […]
8 March 2015
Forum of Women of DOM congratulated 8th of March, International Women’s Day, to all women in the Republic of Macedonia. In a statement of the party it is read that they support the platform “Planet 50-50” by 2030, set by the United Nations. – We propose to provide equal representation of women and men in […]
