Following Jelena Karleuša’s Instagram post, which challenges the right to equality and incites hatred based on Romanian ethnic minority affiliation, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, stated that such language is unacceptable and condemnable. Linking the work of state institutions, including the police, prosecution, and judiciary, to the national origin of individuals or…
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Hate speech, insults and threats targeting individuals and endangering their safety, whether it refers to the journalist Tamara Skroza or Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, attacks potentially motivated by national and religious hatred, as well as inappropriate and humiliating comments that become harsher day by day and more brutal on social networks and in the media,…
Read Article → The Commissioner warns that pointing out anyone’s national, religious, or ethnic affiliation when reporting on criminal acts, investigations, suspects, perpetrators, or victims does not enhance the understanding of the event in any way, but rather casts a negative light on all members of a particular social group. We have witnessed that during the media coverage…
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Regarding the incidents at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, related to the request for the dismissal of Professor Dinko Gruhonjić, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, points out that what is happening is not a way to determine anyone’s responsibility, and that it turns us as a society away from…
Read Article → The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, points out that the publication of a fake death certificate of the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, on social networks is completely unacceptable and reprehensible. Alluding to someone’s death represents an extreme form of political action, and there is nothing satirical or witty…
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Demeaning and offensive speech that represents a violation of the dignity of any person based on some of their personal characteristics is prohibited by the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination and is to be condemned in every way, warned the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, regarding the video in which MP…
Read Article → It is inadmissible for anyone to take justice into their own hands, and it is especially worrying when children and young people resort to violence, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica, Janković regarding the information that a group of Bosniak high school students in Prijepolje physically attacked another student, against whom proceedings are…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, strongly condemns the behavior of a group of young men from Priboj who celebrated Bozic with songs propagating hate speech against members of the Muslim faith community. The commissioner assessed that it was good that the MUP reacted quickly and pointed out that it is important to…
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The demolition of the window of the Pride Info Center in Belgrade is not only reprehensible, but it is difficult to understand the continuous destruction of the premises of this center, said the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic. There are security camera recordings, so an efficient and quick reaction of the authorities…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality strongly condemns the events of the past few days of the election campaign, such as the promotion of the video and statements with elements of hate speech towards the LGBTI community and political dissenters, the attacks on activists in the door-to-door campaign, on the stands of the Serbian…
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