Statements

International Roma Day

The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, congratulates all Roma men and women in Serbia International Roma Day, saying that April 8 is an opportunity to point out that members of the Roma national minority are still marginalized and discriminated against. On that occasion, the project Roma Platform was presented by Roma Association…

Read Article →
Meeting of Commissioner and Director of Unicef in Serbia

Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, met with the Director of UNICEF in Serbia, Deyana Kostadinova, with whom she discussed the extension of cooperation in the field of protection of the rights, equality and education of children in Serbia. Jankovic and Kostadinova  discussed the problems faced by children and young people in the…

Read Article →
Commissioner met with representatives of the movement Opre Roma Serbia

Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, met with the representatives of the movement Opre Roma Serbia. They informed her about the details of the tragic event in the informal Roma settlement in the Belgrade municipality of Cukarica last Friday, when six children and one man suffered severe burns from an electric shock, from which,…

Read Article →
Commissioner submitted Regular Annual Report to the National Parliament

Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, submitted to the National Parliament The Regular Annual Report for 2020, a year undoubtedly marked by the current situation caused by the pandemic, when most complaints were filed due to discrimination on grounds of health and age, which was expected. Following are complaints on grounds of ethnicity,…

Read Article →
Implementation of international convention important for efficient prevention of workplace violence

Having in mind the importance of protection against any form of violence in the labor market, especially protection of women who belong to one of the most vulnerable groups,  Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic supported the initiative of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia to ratify Convention No. 190 of…

Read Article →
Commissioner discussed the position of elderly with representatives of associations of pensioners

Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, met with the president of the Association of Pensioners of Serbia, Andrej Savic, and the president of the EB of the Third Age Movement, Momcilo Talijan, with whom she discussed the position of senior citizens in Serbia. Age is one of the most common grounds for filing…

Read Article →
Commissioner in Priboj on the occasion of International Women’s Day

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, March 8, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, organized a visit to the municipality of Priboj, which was awarded the prize for the “City / municipality of equal opportunities” in 2019. The Ambassador of Australia, Ruth Stewart, and the Deputy Ambassador of Great Britain,…

Read Article →
Commissioner Jankovic on empowering women from rural areas in Arandjelovac

Women’s entrepreneurship in rural areas and local communities should be strengthened, because there is a growing number of women who decide to take matters into their own hands, to combine their skills, knowledge, natural resources and traditions to start a joint business, said Commissioner for Protection. Equality, Brankica Jankovic, at the conference “Empowerment of women…

Read Article →
Commissioner sent Recommendation to the Ministry of Healh

Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, sent a Recommendation to the Ministry of Health to review and analyze all the effects of the potential abolition of the Institute for Health Protection of Students in Serbia and its merging with health centers, after addressing of organizations that deal with protection of human rights. Such…

Read Article →
Statement on the occasion of World Day of Social Justice

Social and economic disturbances caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the growth of existing and the emergence of new inequalities in societies around the world, says Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic, on the occasion of World Day of Social Justice. Commissioner points out that the measures taken by…

Read Article →
back to top