Commissioner for the Protection of Equality

Organisation name in original language

Poverenik za zaštitu ravnopravnosti

Category of human rights structure

Statutory human rights body

Country

Serbia

Website URL

https://ravnopravnost.gov.rs/

Type(s) of body

Equality Body (EB)

Address

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Legal source(s)

  • Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination,Official Gazette RS,No 22/2009, 52/2021 (Zakon o zabrani diskriminacije)
  • Decision on the Establishment and Work of the Professional Service of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality,Official Gazette RS,No 8/11 and 32/13 (Odluka o obrazovanju i radu Stručne službe Poverenika za zaštitu ravnopravnosti)

Human rights capacity support

Not applicable

Functions

  • Oversight
  • Providing remedy
  • Collecting data on human rights violations
  • Performing promotional activities
  • Other

Specific mandates

  • Hate crime
  • Corporate responsibility
  • Equality body with a mandate on equal treatment

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Apart from cooperation based on the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, there is no other structured cooperation/coordination with actors/mechanisms in the executive, legislative or judicial branches. The commissioner has signed cooperation agreements with the Institute of Comparative Law (a public scientific research institute) and with 10 universities and national education authorities.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • Member of the European Network of Equality Bodies
  • Strategic planning of regional cooperation among the Western Balkans as set out in the regional action plan
  • Memorandum of understanding signed with the United Nations Children’s Fund office in Belgrade
  • Memorandum of understanding signed with the United Nations Population Fund office in Belgrade

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