The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, strongly condemned the writing of hateful graffiti against citizens of the Orthodox religion on the wall of an elementary school in Novi Pazar. She warned that writing messages that incite religious hatred and violence is prohibited by law and is particularly harmful in multinational environments, given…
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On the occasion of the song performed by the actor and member of the PSG presidency, Sergej Trifunović, and members of the Movement of United Phantoms, in which, among others, the Prime Minister of Serbia is insulted on the basis of sexual orientation, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, points out that…
Read Article → The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, condemns the writing of antisemitic graffiti on the Sephardic Jewish Cemetery in Belgrade and reminds that just a few days ago, the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and the great suffering of a nation was marked. In a country that suffered huge…
Read Article → The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, strongly condemns the attack by neo-fascists in the “Crni ovan” coffee shop in Novi Sad. The attack by extremist groups with the use of fascist symbols is worrisome because every appearance of one of the most dangerous ideologies indicates ignorance of the true suffering that fascism…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, most strongly condemned the comparison that Miloš Jovanović, member of Parliament from the NADA coalition, uttered in response to a journalist’s question about the price of Serbia’s abandonment of the European path. He used an extremely disgusting, inappropriate, misogynistic, and sexist comparison, the Commissioner pointed out. Despite…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, strongly condemns the distribution of inadmissible content on the networks directed against the member of Parliament, Staša Stojanović, in the rudest way. It’s not the first time that offensive and sexist content has been published publicly against female politicians, which belittles and insults them, but this…
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The latest murder in Vršac, in which a father killed his two-year-old daughter, is one of the most shocking cases in the long history of domestic violence, which points out in the cruelest manner the problem we are facing, said the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković. She emphasized that we have reached…
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The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, condemns the demolition of the memorial that stood on the site where the Synagogue in Sremska Mitrovica was 80 years ago. The desecration of landmarks that remind us of the suffering of Jews in a country that suffered great sacrifices in the fight against fascism directly…
Read Article → Inciting to physical violence, discrimination, and hatred in the speech of Bishop Nikanor of Banat to the gathered believers, which was reported by the media and social networks, is to be strongly condemned. Expression of opinions and ideas that call for hatred and violence against members of the LGBTI community and insult the dignity of…
Read Article → Linking the spread of new infectious disease “monkeypox” with the LGBT community, the way some media and portals are doing, is to be strongly condemned, said Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Janković. She emphasized that the targeting of any group of people based on any actual or perceived personal characteristics, including on grounds…
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