{"id":7753,"date":"2025-07-28T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/engaging-male-leaders-for-gender-equality-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:35:36","slug":"engaging-male-leaders-for-gender-equality-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/engaging-male-leaders-for-gender-equality-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging male leaders for gender equality in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Executive Director of the Musine Kokalari Institute, Visar Ymeri, was invited to the event \u201cEngaging Male Political Leaders for Gender Equality,\u201d organized by the European Liberal Forum in Dubrovnik.<\/p>\n\n<p>This event placed at the center of the discussion the role of men in promoting gender equality within political parties, shifting the focus away from seeing women exclusively as agents of empowerment and engaging male political leaders as key actors in transformative changes toward more inclusive politics.<\/p>\n\n<p>Visar Ymeri emphasized the importance of the active involvement of male leaders in transforming gender norms in politics, building a more equal and inclusive political culture.<\/p>\n\n<p>Representatives from Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia also participated in this event, sharing experiences and strategies for advancing gender equality in the region.<\/p>\n\n<p>Gender equality is not just a women\u2019s issue \u2013 it is everyone\u2019s responsibility! Only through the engagement of all actors can we create a fairer and more representative society.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" data-id=\"7304\" src=\"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486327638_967789728873990_4812421681526652845_n-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486327638_967789728873990_4812421681526652845_n-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486327638_967789728873990_4812421681526652845_n-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" data-id=\"7307\" src=\"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486841825_967791525540477_1910966792108624049_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486841825_967791525540477_1910966792108624049_n-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/486841825_967791525540477_1910966792108624049_n-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of the Musine Kokalari Institute, Visar Ymeri, was invited to the event \u201cEngaging Male Political Leaders for Gender Equality,\u201d organized by the European Liberal Forum in Dubrovnik.<br \/>\nThis event placed the role of men at the center of the discussion regarding the promotion of gender equality within political parties, shifting the focus from exclusively seeing women as agents of empowerment to engaging male political leaders as key actors in transformative change towards more inclusive politics.<br \/>\nVisar Ymeri emphasized the importance of the active involvement of male leaders in transforming gender norms in politics, building a more equal and inclusive political culture.<br \/>\nRepresentatives from Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia also participated in the event, sharing experiences and strategies for advancing gender equality in the region.<br \/>\nGender equality is not just a women\u2019s issue \u2013 it is everyone\u2019s responsibility! Only through the engagement of all actors can we create a fairer and more representative society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}