Carovska: Implemented effective mechanisms to reduce number of unemployed young people


2018 Operational Employment Plan and pilot programme Youth Guarantee are being successfully implemented. This shows that we have created effective mechanisms to reduce unemployment in Macedonia and most likely in the next period will yield positive results for unemployed young people, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Mila Carovska told Sunday’s press briefing. MKD 987 […]

Carovska: New law improves protection against discrimination


To expand grounds of discrimination, to improve and to professionalize the Committee for Protection against Discrimination, to include sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds for discrimination, to recognize segregation as new form of discrimination, to increase penalties, etc, is foreseen in the new draft-law on protection against discrimination. The bill was passed by the […]

Two more cases of sexually abused girls in state care


A case of a 13-year old Roma girl, who became pregnant after years of sexual abuse, it seems isn’t an isolated case involving girls sheltered in an institution for troubled youngsters in Skopje. The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) reported about similar testimonies shared by two Roma sisters, who have been reportedly sexually abused. Namely, the […]

Ministry of Labor: Underage pregnant girls were not sexually abused


No sexual abuse or sexual exploitation has been identified in the two new cases of teenage pregnancy, involving two girls sheltered at the May 25 institution for children with social problems in Skopje. They got pregnant after having consensual sexual relations with boys from the institutions with whom they were in a relationship, the Ministry […]