Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke with Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Thomas Greminger about the many years of very good and continuous cooperation that the Commissioner has with the OSCE. Jankovic briefed Greminger on the activities undertaken by the institution in the field of protection and…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic spoke with Sanja Vranes, Director of the Mihajlo Pupin Institute, a leading research institution in the field of information and communication technologies. The main topic of the meeting was the impact of the widespread use of artificial intelligence in the labor market, primarily on equality and equal treatment…
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It is necessary that employers respect workers’ rights and provide equal treatment for all employees, while reduction and suppression of discrimination in the area or work and employment is a common goal for Commissioner for Protection of Equality and trade unions, said Commissioner Brankica Jankovic at the opening of the session of Main Board of…
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There are evident improvements made during the previous years related to the position of LGBT population, but they are still facing great social distance and misunderstanding, while being targeted with patronizing and belittling speech in some media, said Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic in advance of Pride Parade. She said that she expects…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic sent an Initiative for determining names and marking streets, squares and buildings in Belgrade to the Belgrade City Assembly, suggesting that more streets should be named by outstanding women from our society. Equality of women and men is one of the fundamental human rights and basic values of…
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Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Milan Marinovic, met with Brankica Jankovic, Commissioner for Protection of Equality, to discuss topics from two independent institutions’ scope of work, as well as their future cooperation. Main subject of discussion referred to activities from the area of personal data protection, having in mind that…
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Young people in Serbia are facing numerous problems and challenges of contemporary age, but one of the greatest challenges in our society is the decrease in number of young people in total population. Young people are expansively leaving country, primarily because of their belief that they will have better perspective abroad for education and later…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic initiated strategic litigation for the protection against discrimination before Superior Court in Belgrade, on behalf of Snezana Pesovic, because of discrimination on grounds of sex and family status. Beside the request to determine discrimination and eliminate consequences of discriminatory act, the lawsuit asks the Court to issue temporary…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic is taking part in the second OSCE Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna, held during the Slovak Presidency of the OSCE. The theme of the conference is effective multilateralism within the human dimension of the OSCE, but also the possibility of mutual support among international organizations and national…
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Intersex persons are practically invisible in Serbia, and practice and existing legal solutions do not solve the most important problems of intersex persons and their families, concluded Brankica Jankovic with Kristijan Randjelovic from the organization XY Spektrum, which deals with the protection and promotion of rights of intersex persons. Jankovic and Randjelovic met in order…
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