Brankica Janković, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality condemns insulting and belittling articles against LGBT persons that have been published recently in certain printed media outlets, as well as unacceptable sensationalistic reporting on violence against women. The Commissioner stresses that when reporting on violence against any social group, the rights and dignity of victims of…
Read Article →A dramatic fact that in the last 24 hours two women have been murdered in Serbia in intimate partner violence is the latest alarm for all competent services and authorities to undertake urgent measures and improve the system of protection from violence against women, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Ms Brankica Janković warns. …
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković condemns billboard advertisments throughout Vojvodina associating women with an agricultural product in a derogatory way, as highly inappropriate and insulting. The content objectifying women, together with the stereotype on giving birth as an only role of woman is deeply discriminatory, it insults the dignity of women and…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković strongly condemns brutal physical attack on Lesbian organisation Labris’s activist Dragoslava Barzut and another three young women and requests prompt reaction of competent authorities, so to bring to the end all physical attacks motivated by homophobia. „It is absolutely unacceptable and to strongly condemn attacking women who…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković strongly condemns physical attack on LGBT activist Predrag Azdejkovic and calls for prompt reaction of competent authorities. „Verbal threats and physical assaults are absolutely unacceptable and it is the duty and the responsibility of Police to protect all citizens regardless of their sexual orientation or any other…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković warns the public on the announcements from several radical right wing organizations on planned demonstrations against migrants, that the Constitution and the Law forbid incitement of any religious, ethnic and racial hatred and discrimination and that this must not be tolerated by the state. „Competent authorities must…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković condemns graffiti directed against the president of Democratic Party Mr Bojan Pajtic and she requests from competent authorities to find and punish perpatrators. Threats and hate speech are unacceptable in the country that builds open and democratic society and this kind of behaviour must be condemned condemnation…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković is warning the public that the moct recent act of domestic violence announced in the media, must be the last alarm for competent authorities to react and take all necesarry measures to stop this horrifying phenomenon. Futhermore, commissioner stresses out that it is unacceptable to report on…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković urges to all the competent authorities to find most suitable and adequate solution for housing more dosens of Roma families that to be forcely displaced last week from informal settlements in Zemun and Novi Beograd. The Commissioner warns that it is necessary, according to the international standards…
Read Article →Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ms Brankica Janković is warning the public that in the last few days several daily newspapers have been anouncing discriminatory, inappropriate and insulting texts and photographs of domestic and foreign female politicians, which is fully unacceptable and prohibited by the law. This kind of scandalous contents offend the dignity of…
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