Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality issued a warning to the public following newspaper columns published in Politika daily which contain impermissible and insulting justifications of recent cases of violence against women, intimate partner and domestic violence which resulted in death. By belittling and accusing women and by trivializing responsibility for such…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković warns that for slightly more than a week, two women in Serbia were murdered in partner and domestic violence – first in Negotin and second in Bačka Palanka, while a women and her daughter, who already have been moved to safe house, were severely injured in Bela…
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Commissioner for the protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, strongly condemns the incident that happened in a school yard of elementary school in Belgrade. According to Danas daily newspaper, a group of eight grade pupils beat up a seventh grade pupil just because he is a member of the Roma national minority. Commissioner expects prompt and…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, warned that there were two brutal attacks against transgender persons in the last 10 days and that she expected that the authorities would find and apprehend the perpetrators. Commissioner said that physical violence represents the most drastic violation of human rights and is the end result discrimination…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, condemns the statement of Biljana Kovačević, Emergency Department Chief in Čačak hospital, who said at the press conference in Čačak General Hospital: “You know, time is running out for all of us in some service, a nurses aged 23 and 53, working in emergency department, cannot provide…
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Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, hereby warns the public that the number of women who experienced violence in family and partner relations continues to grow on daily basis in this year too. Yesterday’s example of a woman that was brutaly murdered just because she wanted to divorce her husband so as…
Read Article → Brankica Jankovic, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, strongly condemns sexist and misogynic statements and attitudes of Dušan Marić, a columnist in Afera Magazine. Kurir daily newspaper published parts of the article „Serbian gynecologists have murdered a city as large as Belgrade in 10 years“, originally published by Afera weekly magazine, where author accused women…
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Reacting to the announcement that a State Council for Fighting Abortion will be established, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković pointed to Articles 44 and 63 of Constitution of the Republic of Serbia. According to the Constitution, everyone has the right to freely decide about giving birth to a child. Although Serbia…
Read Article → Brankica Janković, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality strongly condemned sexist and misogynic statements and views of Dušan Marić, author of a column published in Afera weekly magazine on 7 December 2016. In this article women were not just insulted and humiliated, but the problem of violence itself was relativized. By claiming that women…
Read Article → On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković warned the public about frequent cases of gender based violence that often end tragically – with murder. The recent case of a woman working for the Ministry of Interior, who was shot and…
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