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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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic and Association of Business Women organized a working meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Ana Brnabic, dedicated to the development of women entrepreneurship in Serbia, which was attended by more than 40 entrepreneurs, members of the Association of Business Women. The goal of…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic met with the president of Executive Board of the association Women at the milestone Mima Perisic, regarding the extension of cooperation in the area of the improvement of gender equality at the labor market. It was discussed at the meeting about possible activities which would point to…
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In order to continue and expand the cooperation in the area of human rights, prohibition of discrimination and improvement of equality, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic met with Ambassador of Canada Kati Csaba. Commissioner presented to Ambassador the activities and practice of Commissioner for the Protection of Equality in field of protection…
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For years now, the persons with disabilities and members of Roma national minority stand as the social groups which are frequently facing discrimination, while their position has been documented not only through statistical data related to the number of complaints that were filed to Commissioner for the Protection of Equality but also by the numerous…
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