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Commissioner visits Little Mermaid Kindergarten at the beginning of Children’s Week Festival

The visit of Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality to Little Mermaid Kindergarten in Stepa Stepanović Belgrade neighborhood, marked the beginning of Commissioner’s activities within the Children’s Week. The Commissioner talked about tolerance, friendship and family relations to more than hundred children and handed out coloring books which promote values associated with…

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Years do not count – promoting solidarity among different generations

“Older people are frequently discriminated against primarily in the area of healthcare. They are also being discriminated on the labor market, and when I say this I have older workers in mind. Because “older” is how their employees perceive them, due to prejudice and ignorance, thinking that those above 50 or 55 years of age…

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Commissioner with the ECRI members

Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality met with the members of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance which was held at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. During the fifth round of monitoring by ECRI’s experts who were on a country visit to the Republic of Serbia, the delegation…

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2015 Regular annual Report of the Commissioner before Parliamentary Committee for Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality

Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality attended the Sixth Session of the Parliamentary Committee for Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality at the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia. The main item on the agenda was the 2015 Regular Annual Report of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. At…

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World Alzheimer’s Day

On the occasion of the World Alheimer’s Day, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković said that caring for our elderly citizens is a moral imperative for each society, while special attention must be given to all those individuals in need of certain types of protection, in particular to those suffering from the…

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2016 Belgrade Pride Parade

2016 Belgrade Pride Parade which was held without any incidents and tensions demonstrated that Serbia has become a more mature and tolerant society, said Brankica Janković Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. She stressed that activities towards improving regulations need to continue in order to create equal legal opportunities for all citizens in our country…

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2015 Regular Annual Report of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality before the Parliamentary Judicial Committee

Regular Annual Reports of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and Protector of Citizens were subject of scrutiny of the Parliamentary Judicial, State Administration and Local Government Committee during its Second Session. In addition, the 2015 Report on the Implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law…

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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Opens a Conference on Child Rights

Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality opened an international Conference on Child Rights organized by the Center for Advanced Legal Studies in cooperation with the AIRE Center from London and held at the Belgrade Media Center. The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality stressed the significance of the commitment expressed by the…

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Conference on Roma discrimination

„Discrimination of the Roma – Experience of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality“ conference was organized by the institution of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and supported by the GIZ. The main objective of this conference was to encourage key players tasked with the protection of Roma rights to use equality protection…

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The Commissioner meets the elderly in Čačak

Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality took part in a focus group as part of “Position of the elderly in rural areas” project implemented by the institution of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and Red Cross of Serbia. The aim of this focus group was to find out how the…

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