AUTHOR=Tozija Fimka 

TITLE=Women's Safety and Gender-Based Violence in the Republic of North Macedonia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00033

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2020.00033

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=•	Introduction: Violence against women in Republic of North Macedonia is the most common form of human rights violation and thus women’s safety is a public health problem of high priority. 
•	Policy Implications: There are significant achievements in: pol-icy development; legislation harmonization for prevention of violence against women and pro-tocols for treatment and support of female victims and collabora-tion and coordination of different sectors.
•	Actionable Recommendations: In practice, still, there is a need to establish a system of institutions for effective prevention, protec-tion, evidence and support of women victims of gender based violence and prosecution of per-petrators.
•	Conclusions: Policies for women’s safety improvement should be considered as priority and undertaken at individual, re-lationship, community and soci-ety level.