The Serbian parliament elected on Wednesday, 26th May 2015, Brankica Jankovic as Commissioner for Protection of Equality. Jankovic received 151 votes from MPs of the ruling coalition. In the previous government, Jankovic was state secretary at the labor ministry and head of the negotiating group 19 dealing with social policy and employment in SAA talks…
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At the sitting held on 5 May, the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality was presented the Commissioner for Protection of Equality’s Special Report on Discrimination against Women. Commissioner for Protection of Equality Nevena Petrusic presented the Commissioner for Protection of Equality’s Special Report on Discrimination against Women saying that it rounds…
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As a part of the 28th Belgrade marathon, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality organised the traditional action under the motto “We are all equal in this race”. Interested citizens had an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the institution and to, through an anonymous questionnaire, test their knowledge on the subject of…
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The exhibition of children’s art works “We are all equal and we can do it together!” was formally opened at Children’s Cultural Centre Belgrade, on 16th March 2015. At the opening ceremony, winners of the CPE and UNICEF competition were declared. In the second half of 2014 a drawing contest was announced for students of…
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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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