At the fifteenth meeting of the Gender Equality Committee held today, views on improvement of the current legislation regarding quotas for underrepresented sex in the electoral legislation and finding mechanisms to make those more effective were exchanged.

Following the comprehensive discussion, it was decided the Committee to define conclusions and to submit them to the Working Group for Building Trust in the Election Process.

In addition to Committee members, today’s meeting was attended by the following: interested MPs Zorica Kovačević, Marta Šćepanović and Azra Jasavić, UNDP Resident Representative to Montenegro Mr Rastislav Vrbenski, Deputy Head of Operations in the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro Ms Dawn Adie-Baird, Senior Political Advisor in the OSCE Mission Mr Alyn Roberts, Protector of the Human Rights and Freedoms Mr Šućko Baković, Coordinator at the Department for Gender Equality of the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights Ms Irena Bošković, Project Manager of the EU Delegation to Montenegro Ms Mladenka Tešić, Professor at the University of Montenegro Ms Olivera Komar, Professor at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad Ms  Marijana Pajvančić, representatives of the UNDP Gender Programme Ms Kaća Đuričković and Ms Sanja Elezović, representative of NGO Women's Rights Centre Ms Maja Raičević, Executive Director of the Center for Monitoring Ms Nikoleta Tomović and representative of NGO Civic Alliance Ms Edina Čobaj.