{"id":1977,"date":"2019-02-27T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nkeu.mk\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:57:02","slug":"the-fourth-session-of-the-nceu-mk-working-group-2-social-policy-and-employment-chapter-19-non-discrimination-and-equal-opportunities-european-legislation-in-national-policies-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkeu.mk\/en\/2019\/02\/27\/the-fourth-session-of-the-nceu-mk-working-group-2-social-policy-and-employment-chapter-19-non-discrimination-and-equal-opportunities-european-legislation-in-national-policies-and-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth session of Working Group 2 – Social Policy and Employment (Chapter 19) – \u201cNon-Discrimination and Equal Opportunities: European legislation in national policies and practices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fourth session of the NCEU-MK Working Group 2 Social Policy and Employment (Chapter 19) on the topic \u201cNon-Discrimination and Equal Opportunities: European legislation in national policies and practices\u201d was held at the MP’s Club in Skopje on February 19, 2019. This session was attended by more than 50 representatives from all stakeholders, such as representatives from Ministry of Labor and Social Policy,<\/span> non-governmental organizations and associations, entrepreneurs, professors and experts from the country and abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The session was opened by Marija Ristovska, who pointed out the uniqueness of the National Convention, a platform that unites all stakeholders. No discrimination is a principle introduced in the EU after 2000, but unfortunately there is a limited impact in EU member states. But through EU foreign policy, this principle is strongly imposed on member states. This is good for us because with such positive policies our society has positive gains. The principle of non-discrimination gets one constitutional principle at EU level. She stressed that we need to know where to we are starting from and where we want to get through our reforms.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second speaker was Jovana Trencevska, State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. According to her, this issue is very important and that will seriously be the priority of the Government and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. When talking about non-discrimination, we are talking about human rights and the exercise of those rights. Equal treatment and the same treatment are<\/span> not the same. All citizens do not have the same priorities and the same needs, and therefore the policies of the Government are not able to treat all the same.<\/span> But everyone should receive the same treatment. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jarmila Lajcakova from Slovakia was next <\/span>speaker<\/span>. She works as Senior fellow in the Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture, Slovakia. At the beginning she noted that implementing the Istanbul convention, which is a very contested topic in political circles in Slovakia, is impressive. Ms. Lajcakova also noted that Budgeting on municipality level for gender equality is also something Slovak Republic can learn. The presentation was focused on ethnicity and gender. In the accession process, in Slovakia there was a big debate on how to implement all the directives. She explained the some of the challenges that Slovak Republic had. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The next speaker was Nano Ruzin, professor at the FON University . He noted that the concept of equality of chance is a social economic theme. The first discrimination is of a social nature. The market is insensitive and creates differences between people on various grounds. According to him, we should go back to improving the social status of the individual. The Internet offers unlimited possibilities.<\/span> If women or Roma, know how to work online, as categories where there is higher unemployment, they are not dependent on the state and the chances that it provides, but have a whole world of opportunities. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Savka Todorovska was the fifth speaker. She first referred to her motives. Rosa Luxemburg, New York demonstration for women’s rights and the book Uncle Tom’s cabin. She agreed with prof. Ruzin, that the individual is the center of everything. There cannot be a whole, a group, if it does not start from the individual. We have good legislation in Macedonia, but we must urge that we put it into operation.<\/span> About equality and discrimination, she believes that we do not have equal rights, but we have discrimination. In nature we are 50-50 but in real life and in almost all industries we are far from 50\/50. In Macedonia, for now, women are 10% more educated, and yet this is not reflected in the labor market. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Next was Natasha Boshkova, who works as a Lawyer in the Coalition for Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities. First she stressed that education is a serious problem for the stigmatization of marginalized persons. The content in some textbooks in elementary and secondary education is discriminatory against these categories of citizens. Transgender persons do not have the opportunity to legally recognize their gender identity, or to be entered in the registry in the genus in which they are identified. There is a verdict against Macedonia in Strasbourg, which requires Macedonia to adopt a special legal framework that will allow transgender people to be recognized in their registry and receive personal documents that will reflect their gender, that is, in the genus where they will be identified. She noted that the European Parliament passed a resolution on inter-sexes. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the break followed Vera Koco, <\/span>Retired Judge of the Supreme Court. <\/span>She said that when we talk about non-discrimination we must start from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted in 1948 by the UN General Assembly<\/span>, in which one great wisdom is expressed, human beings are born free and therefore enjoy the equal right to dignity before the laws. Also important <\/span>in this domain is the European Convention on Human Rights, which deals with the meaning of non-discrimination in Article 14, namely that all people enjoy equal rights equally without any discrimination on any ground. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Europe, a European Social Fund is also provided, which provides support for the employment strategy. We may need to learn from this and introduce such a fund in Macedonia. According to her, the Labor Inspectorate in Macedonia is not adequately staffed and does not go out on the field as needed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hilda Meshkova, judge of the Basic Court – Skopje 2<\/span> was the last speaker before the debate<\/span>.She began her presentation with data from a survey conducted by Amnesty International on how people deal with stigmatization and discrimination. The survey was conducted in Turkey, at a pet store, in order to get to know people how much we do not know about discrimination.A camera is placed in the store and the buyers are told that the turtle is homosexual. According to her, one of the most difficult parts is to recognize discrimination. The condition without which is not possible is the European Convention on Human Rights. Strasbourg is always an option to protect individual rights.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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