Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic and comic writer Marko Somborac are the winners of this years “Contribution of the Year to Europe” award, which the European Movement in Serbia has been awarding since 2002. It is stated in the explanation for Brankica Jankovic that she significantly contributed to the promotion of European values…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, participated in the work of the Round Table where the Draft Action Plan for achieving gender equality of the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade was considered. Gender equality in the field of education is extremely important, because it is a social area where you can do…
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Bearing in mind the current demographic picture, that every fifth inhabitant of Serbia is older than 60 years, as well as the expected tendencies regarding natural growth and general aging of the population, social inclusion of the elderly should be among top priorities when creating public policies, stressed the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic participated in giveaway of New Year’s presents at the holiday celebration, organized for the children who stay in the Center for Infant, Children and Youth Protection in Zvecanska Street. Noting that children without parental care and children with development difficulties are our young citizens whose starting positions are…
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At 6th National contest in simulation of trial (Moot Court) in area of protection against discrimination “Convict Discrimination”, organized by Commissioner for Protection of Equality with support of Open Society Foundation, the winners are announced in three categories –best team, best debater and best submission. The winners in all three categories were members of “Hipatia”…
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Right to work is one of fundamental human rights, from which many other rights derive, said Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic at the conference “Working rights are our rights” and added that priority activity in our society should be to increase number of jobs and create better conditions at the labor market for…
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Citizens need independent institutions as they are one of the important mechanisms for protecting human rights and improving the life quality of all our citizens, pointed out the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković at the conference, “A Day After the Human Rights Day – Where Are We Now? “organized by the Initiative…
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The position of elderly citizens does not dependent only on the state, but also on the entire society, and the protection of their rights must be placed in the focus, which, in particular, requires the improvement of the economic and social rights of the elderly in Serbia, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica…
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The Sixth national Moot Court competition in the field of protection against discrimination, which the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality organizes in partnership with the Open Society Foundation for students of law faculties in Serbia, took place in the courtrooms of the Administrative Court in Belgrade. At this year’s competition 17 teams were registered…
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On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, extended her congratulations to all citizens of Serbia, stressing that seven decades following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, violations of enshrined rights still persist and that their purpose which is to protect the…
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