Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic took part in the walk along Kney Mihajlova street within campaign “The rights of Roma women are also human rights”, which draws attention to the right for choosing of partner and underage marriages as violations of rights of children and women. The walk was organized by Roma…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic had a meeting with the Manager of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Graeme Tyndall, regarding the implementation of program “The improvement of good governance and social inclusion at the local level in Serbia (Swiss Pro)”. The program goal is contribution to the more responsible, transparent…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic took part at the regional conference “Implementation of Council of Europe Istanbul Convention – challenges and forthcoming steps” which was organized in Sarajevo by the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of BiH and Agency for Gender Equality of BiH. In her addressing, Commissioner reminded that Serbia…
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On the occasion of 8 March, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic, UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia Karla Hershey, Ambassador of Australia Julia Feeney, Ambassador of Brazil Isabel Cristina de Azevedo Heyvaert, and USA Deputy Chief of Mission Kurt Donnelly visited Lucani. The goal of the visit was to mark the International Women’s…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic took part in the panel „The Role of Women in the Change of Business Environment“ within 25th Kopaonik Business Forum. For the first time, the topic was the influence of women to changes of business environment, while Commissioner spoke about the significance of economic empowerment of women…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke at the opening of the conference „Processing of hate crime and hate speech in Serbian legislation and the European standards“ which was organized by Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade. Meeting was dedicated to the national legislative framework, rights of hate crime and hate speech…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality was again this year present at the Third Age Fair, a manifestation whose aim is to exhort more active life of elderly. Employees in the institution of Commissioner were providing useful information to the visitors at its stand about what discrimination is, how to recognize it and how to…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic opened a conference “Discrimination as a way of life” which was organized by Pescanik, where it was discussed what different social actors can do to improve the unequal position of numerous sensitive social groups members. Stating that, according to the number of complaints submitted to Commissioner for…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic gave a lecture to students of social-humanistic sciences titled “Women in politics – gender equal or not?”. Commissioner Jankovic stated that, in spite of good legal framework and mechanisms for the protection of equality, women are still facing bold and hidden types of discrimination, humiliation, exclusion and…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic discussed with Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks about the state in the area of respecting human rights and improvement of the equality. The topics of discussion were the role and mandate of the independent institutions in protecting human rights, as well as the…
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