 HUMAN RIGHTS AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW, RIGHT OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE, NORTH MACEDONIA

Abstract

In the context of ensuring the principles of equality and non-discrimination every democratic state has the obligation to standardize the corpus of rules that will regulate the anti-discrimination matter precisely and comprehensively in order to create solid mechanisms for efficient and effective legal protection against discrimination. In case of discrimination, besides the possibility of effectuation of extra-judicial mechanisms for protection against discrimination, the victim of discrimination under the law has the right to protect its right in court proceedings. The subject matter of this article is the civil court protection from discrimination in the Republic of North Macedonia. Analysis of the subject matter includes a number of important issues in relation to the judicial protection in the case of improper discrimination. Mainly, the paper deals with the characteristics of individual anti-discrimination judicial protection. The author sets special focus on the procedural specifics that characterize this type of court proceedings.