A meeting with the representatives of international institutions, organisations and embassies that the Commissioner collaborates with was held in Mid-December. The Commissioner Nevena Petrušić summed up the results so far in the work on protection of equality and discrimination combating and presented the plans for next year. The continuation of the important cooperation between the…
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The Commissioner for Protection of Equality, in cooperation with Judicial Academy and with financial support from the Foundation for Open Society and USAID, organised the second national competition of the law faculty students in Serbia in trial simulation (Moot Court) with the theme of discrimination. This year’s theme/topic was discrimination on the basis of sexual…
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On the occasion of the International day of Human Rights, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality and the House of Human Rights and Democracy organised a roundtable meeting „The Role of National Councils in Combating Discrimination”. This meeting was an opportunity for the representatives of all national councils of national minorities to gather for the…
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The Ministry of Youth and Sport, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality and the Office for Human and Minority rights supported the action “Month of tolerance and human rights”, started by several informal youth groups from Serbia. As a part of that action, symbolically on the International day of tolerance, a Caravan “I believe in…
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On the occasion of the International day of Tolerance – 16th November, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality published the Dictionary of Tolerance in the daily newspaper “Danas”. Also, a comic for children which represented the cases of discrimination, was created with the support of Unicef and published in the daily newspaper “Politika”.
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As a finishing activity of the EU project “Implementation of anti-discrimination policies in the Republic of Serbia – IPA 2011” a national campaign for promotion of equality and discrimination combating started in the second half of 2014. The central part of the campaign, named “Discrimination is not a joke – let’s talk about equality” and…
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At the end of October 2014, in the Palace of Serbia, a big conference “Serbia on the way to Tolerance and Non-discrimination: the Experiences of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality” was held, which attended more than 200 participants. This conference attracted a lot media, since all relevant subjects, whose strategic goals and priorities were…
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On 16-17 October 2014 in Belgrade, Equinet, with the support and hosting of the Serbian Commission for the Protection of Equality, organised a training event on positive action measures. During a two-day training, the effects of the application of affirmative action measures, which are taken in the states which are members of EQUINET in order…
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The Commissioner for Protection of Equality along with a group of employees joined the Pride parade, which was held after three years of unsuccessful trials in September 2014. Much like previous years, a support was given to the organisation of all planned activities in the Pride Week, as well as the Parade itself. It was…
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On the International day of LGBT pride 27th June, in park Manjež a meeting was held and after it a walk was organised, as a sign of solidarity between LGBT population with the Roma community, in Belgrade street where, in 1997, a Roma boy Dušan Jovanović was killed. The action called “Hate-free zone” was organised…
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