Protecting persons with disabilities is one of the most important elements of developing, economic and social policy, while attitude toward endangered groups reflects accomplished level of respecting human rights and progress in the society, stresses Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Commissioner indicates that…
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Discrimination of persons who live with HIV and AIDS is still present in Serbia, while the latest survey about attitude of media to discrimination, conducted by Commissioner, revealed that social distance toward these citizens is still existing, said Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic on the occasion of 1 December, World AIDS Day. Persons…
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On the occasion of 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic warns that domestic violence is still an enormous social problem that shows in the most drastic way that system of protection and prevention of gender based violence must be more efficient. In order…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, as the central state institution whose mandate is to promote equality in all social relations and to protect all social groups against discrimination established the ANNUAL AWARD FOR MUNICIPALITY / CITY OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES for all local self-governments in Serbia, with aim to promote and strengthen equality in all…
Read Article → On the occasion of 7 October, World Day for Decent Work, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic stresses that the right to work is one of the basic human rights and that we all should work intensively to create conditions for all people, to be able to provide decent living for them and…
Read Article → Condemning the insults that Zeljko Veselinovic sent to Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic stated that the work of the Government and politicians may be criticized in an appropriate and decent manner, without offensive, humiliating, degrading and sexist insults. By respecting other people’s differences, we show how much we…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic submitted a Proposal for assessing of constitutionality and legality of several provisions of the Law on the Financial Support for the Family with Children to the Constitutional Court of Serbia. In the Proposal for assessing of constitutionality, Commissioner Jankovic points out, among other things, to the unequal…
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Regarding the numerous media issues related to the recommendation to the Minister for Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popovic to apologize to the LGBT community due to a discriminatory statement, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic said that the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination is clear, the same for all, that…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic sends sincere greetings to Serbian para athletes Milos Zaric, Nebojsa Djuric, Zeljko Dimitrijevic who won golden medals in their disciplines, as well as to Milos Mitic, Drazenko Mitrovic, Dusko Sretenovic, Nemanja Dimitrijevic and Saska Sokolov who won bronze medals at the European Para Athletics Championship in Berlin….
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic sent an Initiative to the Ministry of Labor, Veteran and Social Issues for the amendment of the Law on Social Protection, in part related to defined size of land area as a general condition for the realization of right to financial aid for individuals or families. The…
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