Women in governments: myth or reality?

The absence of women in governments, who in the political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina have significant (if not the most significant) influence on decision-making processes, has been quite an issue for years, and nonetheless, mechanisms for improving the situation have not been established yet.

Gordan Bosanac – Civil Society and EU Accession: The Croatian Experience

CSOs took advantage of the accession process to a greater or lesser extent, in accordance with their capacity and advocacy skills, with key emphasis on the contribution of CSOs to European Commission’s reports on RC’s progress in the negotiation process, reports that came to be read with greater understanding and seriousness.

How Croatia became a member country of the EU

The Parliament used special legislative procedures, skipping the customary two readings of bills in Parliament. More than 80% of laws per year were passed in this way. As for the way in which the negotiation process affected the everyday lives of citizens, it was mostly evidently in better human rights protection.

In forming the new Government of Republika Srpska half of BiH citizens were ignored!

We call all institutions that are responsible for the implementation of the Law on Gender Equality – the Agency for Gender Equality, Gender Centre FBiH and RS Gender Centre – to publicly respond to this breach and to do everything so this will not happen again in the forming of the Government of the Federation and the Council of Ministers.

DECEMBER DEMANDS 2014-2018

In the next four years, the Initiative for Monitoring European Integration of BiH will come out on every 19 December and present the public with its monitoring reports on the fulfilment of December Demands.