Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 13092 | 13 March 2013

Gender equality in the countries of the former Yugoslavia

Signatories: Ms Romana TOMC, Slovenia, EPP/CD ; Ms Andreja ČRNAK MEGLIČ, Slovenia, SOC ; Mr Roman JAKIČ, Slovenia, ALDE ; Ms Polonca KOMAR, Slovenia, ALDE ; Mr Jakob PRESEČNIK, Slovenia, EPP/CD

Origin - 2013 - March Standing Committee

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 3, insert the following paragraph:

"The Assembly particularly welcomes the policy and praxis of gender policy in Slovenia, where a parliamentary Commission for Women’s Policy was formed as early as 1990 and where, in 1992, the country committed itself to integrating the principle of gender mainstreaming and has been successfully implementing such policies ever since."

Explanatory note

Supporting the work of civil society organisations operating in the field of the rights of women is a permanent praxis in Slovenia. The country is also a State party to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and regularly reports to the UN on progress made.