Reproductive Rights as Weapon, Women's Rights as Collateral Damage

This book explores the pro-natal politics motivated by declining fertility and rising ethnic-nationalism in the Post-Yugoslav nation states, Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia, during the transitional period and their effects on the promotion of women's labor rights. The main claim of the research is that the pro-natal pressures, in the Post-Yugoslav nation states, Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia, have negative effects on promotion of women's rights because they promote women mainly as mothers and wives, and therefore are not encouraging their full inclusion in the labor forces. It reveals a pattern of acts and pressures that praise women only as mothers, as means for reproduction of the nation. This research should raise awareness that if increase of fertility is the goal than gender sensitive approach to the stimulation of reproduction should be taken into account. So that other rights such as employment rights would not be affected in a negative way.

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Born in 1981 in Skopje, Macedonia. Received my BA in Psychology in 2005 at the University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and later in 2009 my MA in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe, by the University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna.Now working as a Human Resources Manager in my birth town.