Protector of Citizens: Annual Report Gender equality Protector of citizens Deputy Prof. Zorica Mrsevic, PhD

Activities of the Protector of Citizens Systematic monitoring of situation of gender equality Dealing with the petitions Projects Rights of sexual minorities

Systematic monitoring of situation of gender equality

Page  4  Mobbing, discrimination, labor relations, family violence  National strategy for improvement of position of women and advancement of gender equality  Law on sexual equality Violations of rights and policy documents

Page  5 Protector of Citizens has noticed 1  Increasing number of unemployed women in 2009  Abortion as the main contraception  Third type of discrimination: structural type  Effects of crisis differently affect women and men  Combating domestic violence is also a way of combating publicly committed violence  Marriages in Serbia Causes of divorces are different for men and for women  Citizens Protector dealing with petitions from domain of gender equality  Administration against whom the procedures were conducted

Page  6 Protector of Citizens has noticed 2  Petitions issues  Lacks in functioning of administrations regarding gender equality  Protector of Citizens statements  Discrimination of women in documents of Republic statistic institute – corrected  Protector of Citizens’ dealing with petitions from domain of gender equality

3 PROJECTS: UNIFEM OSCE TWINNING

Page  8 PROJECTS  UNIFEM – with Vojvodina’s Ombudsman –anti discrimination provisions, capacity building of local ombudsmen, promotion material  OSCE –Gender sensitive language in public discourse –Capacity building of the Citizens Protector’s experts   TWINNING –Networking of institutions and organizations dealing with gender equality

Rights of sexual minorities

Page  Violated rights of sexual minorities  Security of LGBT activism: attacks to persons and offices  Right to public assembly  Media statements of Citizens Protector  Hate speech in public and media domains

After par months city and communal services painted some of the graphite

Adequate institutional reaction such as sanctioning the perpetrators and public condemnation of such behavior lacked Some of the graphite are still visible in the down town areas