Draft Law on Gender Equality: Will (Just Any) Amendment to the Law Lead to the Improvement of the Situation?
Draft Law on Gender Equality: Will (Just Any) Amendment to the Law Lead to the Improvement of the Situation?

Author(s): Tanja Ignjatović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology
Published by: prEUnup Coalition
Keywords: gender equality; anti-discrimination law; EU accession; women's rights; policy implementation
Summary/Abstract: Although the European Commission’s progress reports on gender equality in Serbia are modest in both scope and content, with relatively moderate conclusions, they still indicate insufficient activity and commitment of the state, reflected in the lack of implementation or (serious) delays in planned activities. What is missing from these progress reports, however, are comments on the quality of changes - amendments and supplements to laws made with the aim of aligning them with the acquis communautaire - and the effects of implemented measures and activities on the actual state of human rights, including the rights of women, and the achievement of equality of women and men in all spheres of public and private life.

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