Report of the EU Parliament on gender equality

Macedonia has bad laws against women discrimination

In the last EU Parliament report dedicated to the situation of women in all countries of Southeast Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey and Croatia), the part about Macedonia states that "the country does not posses appropriate mechanisms for complete implementation of the legal dispositions that refer to the gender equality". It has been emphasized that the position of Macedonian women owes to a great extent to the stereotypes on the roles that should be assumed by men and women respectively, and they especially emphasize the problem of sexual abuse of girls in their families, particularly in the rural areas and among Albanians and Romas, which, as the report states "is not considered to be a big problem". They have also remarked that Macedonia does not have legal dispositions for fighting women trafficking. Therefore, the Macedonian Government is asked to establish the necessary legal norms.

It is a general conclusion that in some countries from Southeast Europe, the situation is far from ideal, which is considered a problem of great political relevance. 
 

K.B.