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Women and nature are connected in many different ways: with their biological
status, reproductive role, discrimination. That is why ecofeminism stands for
one of the main theoretical, philosophical and even practical ways of
resolving the environmental problems. The representatives of this thinking
find that changing positions and behaviors by leaving the patriarchal
approach to everything - to the women and to the nature, can stop the
degradation of the environment. Demographic significance of the women?s role,
in context of environmental changes, was represented by some feminist
movements, as Chipko movement in India, Green Belt movement in Kenya, Love
Canal in State of New York, etc. In this paper, the author gives a short
overview of connections between women and nature, and proposes some new
solutions.

Today, to be a parent with full dignity means to have a lot more than one
usually does in practice. The legislator sometimes, accidentally or
intentionally, fails to regulate already existing social relations in an
appropriate manner, or fails to regulate them at all. Also, the application
of existing law is sometimes rather difficult, due to ignorance or inability
of those who are supposed to apply the law in individual cases. That is
mostly because they do not use the interpretation of the law as a mechanism
to apply the law. That is why some initiatives were started in the past few
years by the NGOs which have been involved in the program of providing better
life for the parents in Serbia. After a short overview of those initiatives
and author?s involvement in them, this paper will present a proposal for some
new pronatalist measures that can establish a new human right (to be a
dignified parent), even though the current laws provide sufficient conditions
to make the parenthood work in practice.