Regarding reports about the appearance of an offensive poster in Kruševac calling for a boycott of Albanian-owned shops, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, said that every statement or action that targets people or calls for discrimination on the grounds of their national origin deserves clear condemnation. Calls for a boycott and…
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Assistant Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Jelena Kotević and Adviser Milan Nikolić held a meeting with Aleksandar Jovanović, a representative of the Vojvodina Roma Centre, regarding the launch of a project aimed at empowering the Roma community. The focus of this project, which is being implemented in cooperation with the European Roma Rights Centre…
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A seminar for police officers from the Novi Sad, Valjevo and Pančevo police administrations was held in Vrdnik as part of a series of training sessions intended for police officers, with the aim of more effectively recognizing and responding to discrimination. Through lectures and interactive workshops, Tatjana Jokanović, Senior Adviser, and Relja Pantić, Head of…
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Economic independence of women, investment in education and the availability of health care, zero tolerance towards discriminatory conduct and work on combating gender-based violence are concrete actions to which we must commit, thereby ensuring that equality does not remain only words. Women must have an equal voice in shaping decisions that affect all of us,…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Milan Antonijević, together with his colleagues, visited the City Administration of Smederevo, where he met with Mayor Jasmina Vojinović and her associates, Head of the City Administration Ivana Stamenković, City Council member in charge of social protection Nemanja Ivošević, Gender Equality Coordinator Đulijeta Sulić, and member of the Local…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, and representatives of the Swiss Cooperation Office visited the municipality of Trstenik, where they had the opportunity to become more closely acquainted with the activities carried out with this municipality within the program “PRO – Local Governance for People and Nature”. This also includes the establishment…
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Discrimination and social distance towards persons living with HIV are most common in the areas of health care, work and employment, and the provision of services, said the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, at the opening of the symposium “HIV Today: Everything We Need to Know”, held to mark the International AIDS…
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“Gender-Based Violence in Emergency Situations” was the topic of a two-day training held at the Training Centre in Plandište for professionals working with migrants. One of the lecturers was Milica Simić, Independent Adviser at the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. The aim of the training was to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, participated in the regional dialogue “Women Lead: Economy, Alliances and the Future of Integration”, which was held in Montenegro. Discrimination against women often represents a pattern that persists thanks to prejudice and “invisible” barriers that continue to shape power relations in our societies. Gender equality, therefore,…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, met with the Ambassador of Turkey to Serbia, İlhan Saygılı, who, together with his associate, visited the institution of the Commissioner. Antonijević and Saygılı discussed the empowerment of women, measures aimed at the rights of the child and persons with disabilities, as well as possible cooperation in…
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