Comments on the physical appearance of prof. Darija Tepavcevic Kisic PhD, who have been present on social networks for several days, especially on Twitter, are insulting and reinforce sexist stereotypes that women in office cannot have professional competencies, but those positions are the result of their appearance, warns Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic….
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After number of complaints by citizens and frequent appearance of unacceptable and offensive speech and stigmatization of persons with COVID-19 viruses, as well as persons at higher risk of disease, such as the elderly and citizens of the Republic of Serbia returning from abroad, which is especially present at social networks, Commissioner for Protection of…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, condemns the attacks on journalists and the police at the protest of high school students in Leskovac due to the alleged announcement of the Pride Parade. Recalling that discrimination against persons of different sexual orientation is still present in our society, Commissioner stresses that such incidents show how…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, condemns the attack on the premises of the Pride Info Center in Belgrade and reminds that all violence is prohibited, especially when it is a consequence of discrimination against any social group, in this case the LGBT population. In recent months, there have been frequent incidents targeting the…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, warns that with the performance of mixing liquids of different colors, the leader of Dveri, Bosko Obradovic, encourages fear and the creation of a hostile environment towards migrants and people of different skin color and ethnic origin. The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia prescribes the right to…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, strongly condemns the comment on the social network Twitter, in which the underage daughter of the President of Serbia was insulted in an inadmissible and shameful way. The public space is flooded with insulting statements and discriminatory attitudes, and it is becoming more and more prominent on social…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic condemns as discriminatory and insulting the statement of Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar that he “pursues a policy of not having Montenegrins in his portfolio” and that in Serbia “we have those Montenegrins in many leading positions who do not know how to speak Serbian”. Jankovic points out that…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic strongly condemns the writing of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi graffiti in Novi Sad, as well as the breaking of windows and the drawings on the facade of the Croatian Home in Novi Slankamen. She reminds that such inadmissible behavior is prohibited by law and does not reflect the general…
Read Article → Cover pages of today’s editions of Srpski Telegraf and Informer, as well as the article on portal alo.rs, which broadcast the statements of the arrested kidnapper of a twelve-year-old girl, cross all boundaries of professional ethics and violate the rights of the child, which can have long-term harmful consequences, especially in smaller areas where the…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic strongly condemns the attack on a man, who was beaten in pizza restaurant in the center of Belgrade just because he was carrying a purple bag, which made attackers think that he was a LGBT person. She expects that authorities will find, arrest and sanction the perpetrators. Any…
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