Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic met with the president of International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) Susan Somers, with whom she discussed about global tendencies in the area of elderly rights prevention and the need for new, special UN Convention for the protection of older persons. Brankica Jankovic stressed…
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Commissioner Brankica Jankovic presented Regular Annual Report of Commissioner on the situation in area of the protection of equality for 2017 to the members of the Board for Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality, at the session in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. She introduced MPs with key data from the…
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„Discrimination Busters“, Youth Panel of Commissioner for the Protection of Equality has started with new activities in this year, at the three-day workshop in student resort Radojka Lakic on Avala. Youth Panel gathers a group of children and young people who take part in workshops and activities of Commissioner. Within previous activities that young people…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic is a winner of annual award „Petar Manojlovic“ for the contribution to the improvement of older persons position in Serbia, given by Gerontology Society of Serbia. The jury explanation stated that „a better quality of life of older persons has been of the outmost importance for Brankica…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic opened 10th jubilee International Gerontology Congress that gathered more than 200 eminent experts from Serbia, South Eastern European Countries, EU and USA, as well as ombudsmen and high officials from the equality institutions form South Eastern Europe. Commissioner Jankovic stressed that attitude towards older persons and creation…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke at the opening of national conference “10 Years Since the Entry into Force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – the Road towards full Implementation”, organized by the United Nations Team and Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Issues. The…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke about the position of LGBTI population at the conference „What is the Answer of Serbia to Homophobia“, held on the occasion of 17 May, International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Stressing that prejudices against persons of different sexual orientation are deeply rooted in our society, Commissioner…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic took part at the conference “Portrait of Woman in Media”, organized by First Women’s Club, where she spoke at the panel dedicated to current issues related to the conference topic. Woman is present in media in many different ways, but often in a discriminatory manner, stated Commissioner…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke about the protection against discrimination at the labor market and the area of labor rights, at the opening of the first interactive seminar for arbiters of Republican Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labor Disputes titled “Individual Labor Disputes in Practice”. Commissioner stressed that it is necessary…
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Within a new cycle of activities aimed to prevention of discrimination at the labor market and improvement of equality, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic presented the Code of Equality in American Chamber of Commerce, a manual dedicated to employers that contains directives for creation and implementation of anti-discrimination policy in the companies…
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