Empowerment

SADA Women's Cooperative, established to strengthen women's empowerment and increase participation in the labor force, aims to be a model for future projects in this matter, the project's coordinator has said.

The priority of the Serbian government is to protect and promote rights and empower women in our society, Brnabic said, according to the government.

"My husband does not want me to work," the wife of a religiously conservative man complained to her psychologist. "He insisted I see a women psychologist," she added. Then as the psychologist raised her eyebrow she realized her husband's inner contradiction: A pious man who disapproves of women working but insists on his wife seeing only a woman professional! 

Don't be surprised if you soon come across products that carry the logo of the United Nations' Women's Empowerment Principles (WEP).

When you see that logo on that product, you will know that the company that produced that product is working for the empowerment of women, both at its workplace and on a global level.

A website will be launched on Friday to promote advice, practical knowledge and experience about ways to economically empower women.

The Serbian government on Thursday adopted a new national strategy for gender equality for the period 2016-2020 and action plan for its implementation.

It should help economic empowerment of women and having more women involved in Serbia's political life.

The Boyner Group, one of the leading companies in the non-food retail sector, announced recently that it was cooperating with the World Bank?s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support women entrepreneurs in the supply chain.

The Turkish government has repeatedly argued that a controversial bill outlining the further empowerment of security forces was drafted in line with the European Union acquis