The rights of every child must be protected at every opportunity, always and without exception, because it is the task of the wider community, but also of every individual in society, to ensure a healthy and safe future for children, without discrimination, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, on the occasion of…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality hosted the 7th Regional Conference of Institutions for Equality in Southeast Europe, held in Belgrade on the International Day of Tolerance, November 16. This year’s conference was dedicated to combating discrimination against older people, with the goal of analyzing and proposing specific ways of action of the equality…
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Diabetes is a growing health problem for a large number of our citizens, which is lately increasingly affecting children and young people, says Brankica Janković, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, indicating that today is another opportunity to start acting and do much more on prevention so that…
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Graffiti – antisemitic, Islamophobic, racist, fascist, xenophobic, as well as any individual act of intolerance that humiliates or incites hatred towards any social group or individual based on some personal characteristic, is to be condemned, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, in Novi Pazar, where she visited the Commissioner’s regional office and…
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All politicians, regardless of mutually opposing views and the heightened rhetoric that is usually present during the election campaign, have the obligation and responsibility to respect the Constitution and the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, which prohibit hate speech, as well as offensive, harassing and humiliating behavior towards to an individual or a group based…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, participated in the international conference marking 30 years of work of the High Commissioner for National Minorities of the OSCE in The Hague. In the panel dedicated to the results and good practice in achieving the active participation of national minorities in social and economic life, Janković…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, participated in the two-day regional conference “Population and Development: Ensuring Rights and Choices” in Geneva, where she spoke in the thematic session “Inequalities, Social Inclusion and Rights”. Presenting examples of good practice from Serbia, Janković evoked the adopted initiative of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality,…
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Rural women face many problems, one of which is unpaid work in the household, because they spend over 21 percent of their time doing unpaid housework. Many of them have neither health nor pension insurance, while only 18 percent of women living in the countryside have a registered agricultural farm, said Commissioner for the Protection…
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The International Day of Older Persons was solemnly marked at the Day Center and Club for Older Persons “Igor Holodkov” in Belgrade with the awarding of prizes and an exhibition of the best children’s works submitted to the competition of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality “Bridge of Understanding – Intergenerational Solidarity”. With mature…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, sent the Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Education a recommendation to take all the necessary measures on time to allocate funds from the budget for the distribution of free textbooks in the territory of all local self-government units for the next school year. Thus, students…
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