Directorate of Policies for Equal Opportunities and Family wants to introduce some of
its activities in order to fulfill its mission, to design and develop policies, legislation and to implement programs which promote gender equality in society, preventing and combating violence against women including domestic violence, protection from discrimination due to sexual orientation and the protection of children’s rights in accordance with current situation and international obligations.

Government of Albania has decided the gender equality issues in the heart of its agenda, considering that economic and social development of country cannot be understood without treatment and concrete achievements, especially in promoting gender issues and making them part of all country’s development policies.

Gender equality is a fundamental civil right, a common value of European Union countries, and therefore a necessary condition for integration and implementation of goals for employment and social cohesion of the SAA, which Albania signed in June 2006. Read more...