The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, strongly condemns the behavior of Red Star fans at the handball match with Novi Pazar. Such exclamations and banners encourage discrimination on the basis of nationality and religion, and cause fear and a hostile environment, which is prohibited by law. Serbia is the state of all…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Janković, condemns the insulting comments made by the director of JP Stara Planina, Goran Karadžić, against Neim Leo Beširi on TV Pink. The law prohibits any expression of discriminatory attitudes on grounds of any actual or presumed protected characteristics, including the nationality or ethnic origin, the Commissioner said….
Read Article → Linking anyone’s actual or presumed nationality or ethnic origin to the profession they practice and professional opinions, as in the case of Vladimir Gajic’s comments at the expense of Dr. Predrag Kon, is inadmissible, offensive and harmful, at least, said Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic. Professional competencies cannot be placed in the context…
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After several citizens addressed Commissioner for Protection of Equality because of the post “When the apartment smells of old age” published on the portal zena.blic.rs, the Commissioner Brankica Jankovic condemns this discriminatory way of portraying the older persons and warns that this article rudely belittles the elderly and insults their dignity. This article problematizes hygiene,…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, strongly condemned the posting of posters with a swastika and anti-semitic content in 27 March Street in Belgrade, stating that such actions are not in accordance with our laws and standards of conduct and do not reflect the general climate in society. Commissioner said that our people…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, points out that the advertising campaign of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce that promotes domestic products is offensive and sexist. Once again, the “originality and creativity” in commercials reduce women to an object that can in no way be associated with the products advertised, but are instead insulting…
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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic points out that despite numerous warnings, public speech is still full of inappropriate misogynistic, sexist statements, as well as insults, related to women who have reported sexual violence or to women who have drawn attention to violence. Commissioner once again warns that all participants in the political and…
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Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, condemns the inadmissible speech of the former football player Dusan Savic, who insulted the LGBT population during his guest appearance on TV Happy. Commenting on the future Law on Same-Sex Partnerships, Savic expressed discriminatory views through additional encouragement of intolerance towards this social group. It is allowed…
Read Article → Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Brankica Jankovic, strongly condemns the rhetoric and behavior of the President of the Serbian Right, Misa Vacic, who insulted Ministers Darija Kisic Tepavcevic and Gordana Comic in an extremely inadmissible, discriminatory and disparaging way, when visiting agricultural farms in Pirot county villages. Vacic’s appearance and public promotion of such…
Read Article → Recent TV Happy show in which astrologists, numerologists and graphologists were interpreting natal charts and destiny numbers of Milena Radulovic and Miroslav Aleksic, in relation to the recently reported case of sexual violence, is an unacceptable humiliation and ridiculing of the woman who reported the violence, as well as mockery of this topic, warns Commissioner…
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