Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Janković held a lecture to students of the School of Human Rights „Vojin Dimitrijević“. Lecture was held in House of Human Rights in Belgrade. Commissioner gave a brief presentation on the institution, the complaints process and cases with the most common rights violations and talked to students about complaints…
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Exploitation of children and their work can be both the cause and the consequence of discrimination and inequality, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković and called on key stakeholders to extend support to vulnerable families, especially by implementing prevention measures, in order to terminate child labor in all areas. Many poor households…
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The Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic held a lecture to student members of the Law Clinic on Discrimination of the University of Belgrade- Faculty of Law. The topic of the lecture was the role and jurisdiction of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality and methods of protection from discrimination, with special emphasis on…
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The Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic attended the Conference on Implementation of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Violence against Women named “Support and Empowerment of Women – Whose responsibility is it?” organized by the Autonomous Women’s Center in the National Assembly of Serbia. The Conference was dedicated to institutional framework, the role…
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The Commissioner for Protection of Equality – Brankica Jankovic stated today that there can’t be no actual gender equality in any area of society without equal representation of women in The National Assembly and that Women’s Parliamentary Network sends a clear message that all political, ideological and other differences can be overcome when it comes…
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The Commissioner Brankica Jankovic and all of the employees from the institution signed the Inciative to make 18th of May a Day of remembrance for all the women murdered during domestic violence in Serbia. This institution became the first to support the activity of the CSOs Autonomous Women’s Center and Network of Women against violence….
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Ruđer Bošković High School students visited, with their teachers, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. Brankica Janković the Commissioner presented them work of the institution and the basic mechanisms for protection against discrimination and advancing equality. Very interactive and creative discussion showed that students are very interested about how to recognize discrimination, what are…
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The Minister of Public Administration and Local self-government Ana Brnabic held a work meeting with presidents of National Councils of National Minorities which was attended also by The Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic and acting director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights Suzana Paunovic. The goal of the meeting was to…
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Representatives of the Czech Republic Parliament Petitions Committee visited the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and informed with the competences and work of the institution. The main thopic of the meeting was cooperation between parliamentary bodies with independent authorities, as well as the role of the body for protection against discrimination and promoting equality….
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UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune visited today the institution of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. Ms Bennoune was informed by Kosana Beker, Assistant to the Commissioner about cases and number of complaints related to alleged discrimination in the field of culture. In addition, other topics included the…
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