Shadow Report on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in North Macedonia

This report was prepared by the members of the Gender Equality Platform.1 The Gender Equality Platform was established in 2014 as an informal platform of civil society organizations who work in the field of gender equality in North Macedonia. Today, the Platform is consisted of 28 member organizations whose vision isto promote gender equality as a value and to jointly act upon the power centres in the Macedonian society.

The data for the report was collected in two phases and the data was gathered by 9 representatives from 9 member organizations of the Platform (Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Reactor, Coalition Margins, HERA, National Network to end Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, Organization of Women of Sveti Nikole, Tiiiit! Inc., HOPS, and Stella Network). The first draft of the report was shared with the Platform members and was opened for additional comments and inputs. The process of data collection and analysis, as well as the writing of the report was coordinated by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, as a member of the Gender Equality Platform.

During the first phase of the preparation of the report an initial report was prepared in September 2021 by Biljana Kotevska and the final version was prepared in April, 2022 by Elena Dimushevska in the second phase. The first phase of the report preparation, in the period from August 2020 till September 2021, was supported by UN Women, while the second phase, from September 2021 till April 2022 was supported by Kvinna till Kvinna and Sweden. The content of this report are the sole responsibility of the Gender Equality Platform and do not necessarily reflect the views of UN Women, Kvinna till Kvinna or Sweden.