OSCE Skopje Mission contributes to mainstreaming gender issues
(OSCE/Mirvete Mustafa)Ambassador Carlos Pais, Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje, speaking at the launch of the OSCE-sponsored International Gender Summer School at SEE University in Tetovo, 10 July 2006. (OSCE/Mirvete Mustafa) Photo details
SKOPJE, 12 July 2006 - Raising gender awareness among local community leaders, academic circles and the general public is the aim of a Gender Summer School taking place at the South Eastern European University in Tetovo (SEEU).
The three-week course on gender issues, developed by a group of national and international experts together with the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, which provided funding for the course, has been included in the curriculum for the first time.
"The OSCE Mission is committed to raising gender awareness," said Ambassador Carlos Pais, the Head of OSCE Mission. "During the 5 July parliamentary elections, all political parties respected the new electoral code with regard to maintaining a gender balance on their respective candidates' lists. As a result, the number of women elected to the Parliament has increased."
The EU Special Representative and Head of the Delegation of the European Commission, Ambassador Erwan Fouere, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mrs Frederic De Man, the Minister of Education and Science, Aziz Pollozhani, and SEEU Rector Alajdin Abazi took part in the opening ceremony.
The Gender Summer School is part of the project 'International Summer University 2006', funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Skopje. It is being attended by some 600 students from the region, as well as from Western Europe, and managed by the Dutch Academic Training Association.
The initiative is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, the University Cyril and Methodius from Skopje, the SEE University, the University Kliment Ohridski from Bitola and the State University of Tetovo.
The three-week course on gender issues, developed by a group of national and international experts together with the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, which provided funding for the course, has been included in the curriculum for the first time.
"The OSCE Mission is committed to raising gender awareness," said Ambassador Carlos Pais, the Head of OSCE Mission. "During the 5 July parliamentary elections, all political parties respected the new electoral code with regard to maintaining a gender balance on their respective candidates' lists. As a result, the number of women elected to the Parliament has increased."
The EU Special Representative and Head of the Delegation of the European Commission, Ambassador Erwan Fouere, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mrs Frederic De Man, the Minister of Education and Science, Aziz Pollozhani, and SEEU Rector Alajdin Abazi took part in the opening ceremony.
The Gender Summer School is part of the project 'International Summer University 2006', funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Skopje. It is being attended by some 600 students from the region, as well as from Western Europe, and managed by the Dutch Academic Training Association.
The initiative is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, the University Cyril and Methodius from Skopje, the SEE University, the University Kliment Ohridski from Bitola and the State University of Tetovo.