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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years

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Living (Oliver Hermanus, 2022).

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mariacallous · 4 months

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A study launched in Tirana on Thursday has uncovered how gender equality, achieved to an extent through quotas for local councils, has failed to produce real equality in political debates, and that women still risk being told to “shut up”.

Albania’s parliament first approved 50-per-cent quotas for women candidates in the 2015 local elections. But the reform initially failed to change much, with some municipalities electing only 10 per cent female representatives.

New rules improved the situation in the following elections. In the latest local elections in Albania in 2023, 43 per cent of those elected were women.

But inequality between the sexes remains present in debates in municipal councils, according to the new study, “When Numbers Lie”, authored by Marsela Dauti and Geldona Metaj, for the Albanian Network for Women’s Empowerment

In the five months between August and December 2023 monitored by the researchers, councillors spoke some 8,300 times in 43 monitored meetings. Mostly it was men doing the talking.

“Men spoke some 6,169 times (74.33%) while women spoke 2,131 times (25.67%),” the study underlines. Men dominate all the councils monitored but, in some municipalities they were responsible for up to 85 per cent of all discussions, the study adds.

Female members of the councils also sometimes faced a hostile environment when they decided to speak up or were taunted with misogynist remarks when they did.

“The mayor or other members of the council or staff members of the municipality were observed ordering [women] speakers to stop,” the study notes.

“We have evidenced some 977 such cases in which women were told to stop 453 times out of the 2,131 times that they spoke (21.26%); some 524 male councillors were told to stop [speaking] out of 6,169 times that they spoke, (8.49%),” it adds.

Interviews with female members of the councils reveal that women feel obsolete compared to men in their respective parties, where male chairmen have sway over almost all decisions, including on the list of the candidates for elections.

They also reported cases when, while they were speaking, someone tried to shut them up by commenting over their voice: “Who do you think you are?” or “You don’t know what you are talking about.” Their requests for information or proposals were simply ignored, they said.

Municipal councils in Albania are widely perceived as powerless, with little ability to hold the mayor or the administration of the municipality to account. Albania has inherited a political system from the communist era with powerful leaders that have undisputed status within their party.

Currently more than half of the members of the Council of Ministers – the cabinet – are female, and one in three MPs are women.

However, the study says this number may give a false impression of progress towards gender equality.

“Autocratic leaders use the numerical increase of women in politics to improve their reputation in the international arena, for the purpose of gaining legitimacy in the eye of the public or civil society groups, or to detract attention from political or economic crisis – a strategy that helps them to hold on power longer,” the study observes.

In these cases, “reforms for gender equality are transformed into a manipulative instrument that, although seems to encourage good governance, in reality damages it,” it adds.

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xhemilbeharaj · 20 days

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“Daily Express”/ Historia e 2 vëllezërve shqiptarë që u dëbuan nga Britania

Dy vëllezër shqiptarë, të dyshuar nga Agjencia Kombëtare e Krimit (NCA) se kanë qenë në krye të një bande të madhe të krimit të organizuar dhe trafikantëve të drogës në Londër, jetonin si stilistë mode, pavarësisht se nuk kishin burime të konsiderueshme të ardhurash. Fation Dauti, 39 vjeç dhe vëllai më i vogël Isuf Dauti nuk mund të rikthehen në Mbretërinë e Bashkuar nga Shqipëria pasi të dy kanë…

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ericola · 2 months

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trinitydigest · 1 year

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