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24 JEMIE 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/jemie24 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal on Ethnopolitics and J E M I E Minority Issues in Europe VOL.24, NO.1, 2025 Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Introduction to the Special Issue on the Gender Dimension of Minority Policies Antonija Petricusid Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia The intersection of gender and minority rights has increasingly become a central concern in the broader field of human rights. Historically, since the adoption of international minority rights instruments in the 1990s and afterwards, the rights of persons belonging to national minorities were primarily addressed from a perspective that focused on preserving the cultural, linguistic, and religious identity of persons belonging to national minorities, as well as on assuring their representation and participation in public life. In the same way, the realization of women's rights and gender equality has been treated as a separate domain of human rights for a long time, primarily aimed at challenging systemic inequalities between men and women in various socioeconomic and political contexts. However, it is now widely recognized that minority women occupy a unique intersection of vulnerabilities, facing compounded challenges that arise from their identities as women and members of minority groups. Among both practitioners and academics dealing with minority rights, the importance to address gender inequality within national minority communities has gained traction due to growing awareness of the specific and overlapping forms of intersectional discriminationfacedbywomenbelongingtocertainnationalminorities.While allwomenexperience gender-based inequalities, minority women often bear the additional burden of marginalization due to their race, ethnicity, language, religion, cultural identity, migration status, or socioeconomic status. In some minority communities, traditional gender roles and cultural practices - such as Journal on Ethnopolitics and AUTHOR: LICENCE: Minority Issues in Europe Antonija Petricusid, University of Copyright (c) 2025 Vol.24, No.1, 2025 Zagreb, Croatia Antonija Petricusid pp.1-5 apetricusic@pravo.unizg.hr DOI: CC https://doi.org/10.53779/AN PE1903 This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4.0 international Ucense. 1

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