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,…
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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…
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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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Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic points out that the cartoon in today’s issue of NIN weekly magazine is inappropriate and insulting in many ways, in context of long-standing sexual violence in on of youth acting schools in Belgrade. Rape, sexual harassment and all other criminal acts against sexual freedom, recognized by criminal justice…
Read Article → A woman from Aleksinac who was killed by her ex-husband and the latest case when man has wounded his partner and her daughter in Požarevac, along with all the victims of the family and partner violence this year, are a warning to everyone that drawing of public attention to this huge social problem cannot and…
Read Article → Commissioner for Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic warns that leader of PSG (Free Citizens Movement) Sergej Trifunovic crossed all public speech boundaries when he insulted an older lady in the most brutal way in one of his tweets. Such sexist and ageist insulting deserve most serious condemnation. Commissioner reminds that public speech must not contain…
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