Date
Monday 2nd June 2025, 9.30-11.00 CET
Speaker
Elena Bozhinovska, President. Youth of Diverse Families, North Macedonia.
Responses:
- Anna Nagy, Director, Single Parents Foundation, Hungary
- Yolanda Arias, Observatory coordinator, Isadora Duncan Single-parent families foundation, Spain
Description
Youth of Diverse Families is a voluntary, professional, non-profit organisation for young people, with a mission to promote gender equality and sensitivity, as well as the rights of young people, with an emphasis on children and youth from single and one-parent families. The vision of the organisation is a contribution to the strengthening of youth capacities and the inclusion of young people from socially marginalised groups in public life and youth policies.
Using a two-generation approach, the speaker gave an overview of single and one-parent families in North Macedonia, and highlighted different campaigns and services they are developing to improve the legal framework and rights of youth from diverse families. You can see the presentation here. They referred to definitions used and the difference between single and one-parent families, describe the types of measures they are advocating for (access to education scholarships, allowances, childcare, legal assistance and more) and highlight recent advocacy wins in North Macedonia.
We also discussed the situation in other countries, namely comparing the situation in North Macedonia with policies for single parent families in Serbia and Bosnia (based on a recently published comparative study), and with responses from single parent families in Hungary and Spain (click here to read the reflections here from the Yolanda Arias).
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Further information
Youth of Diverse Families, North Macedonia