he Action Plan for implementing the Strategy for Improving the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Serbia from 2020 to 2024 designates the Protector of Citizens to act as the national monitoring mechanism on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Protector of Citizens has been designated by the Action Plan as one of the partners in implementing the activities dedicated to developing and implementing an accessibility action plan.
The Action Plan, adopted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia in early April this year, refers to the period from 2021 to 2022, and the Protector of Citizens provided normative opinions in the process of preparing this strategic document.

The Protector of Citizens’ suggestion to reform the legislative framework in the field of legal capacity in order to ensure that people with disabilities enjoy all the rights on an equal footing with other citizens and to set up an assistive decision making system that would replace guardianship protection was inserted in the Action Plan.

Further to the Protector of Citizens’ suggestion, the Action Plan specifies and enables larger availability of services for the protection of sexual and reproductive health of girls and women with disabilities, as well as creating multidisciplinary trainings regarding the manner of treatment, access to and provision of healthcare services for persons with disabilities and realization of these trainings.

The Protector of Citizens suggested, and the Government of the Republic of Serbia included in the Action Plan, intensification of additional assistance services to students and pupils with developmental disabilities and with disabilities, particularly at the local level.

Further to the Protector of Citizens’ suggestion, preparation of cost analysis of the Budget Fund for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities in the period from 2009 to 2020 has been made part of the Action Plan within the measures of active employment policy of persons with disabilities in the open labor market.

During the meeting hosted by Anne Eastwood, Monaco’s High Commissioner for the Protection of Rights, Liberties and for Mediation, special attention was dedicated to the organisational structure and operation of the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights...

La Valedora do Pobo, Dolores Fernández Galiño y Alberto Varela, presidente de la FEGAMP (Federación Gallega de Municipios y Provincias) firmaron ayer un protocolo de colaboración para desarrollar actividades conjuntas con la finalidad de aumentar la calidad de los servicios y atención a la ciudadanía...

Parte oggi, 26 aprile 2021, il Corso regionale di formazione per tutori volontari di minori di età, promosso e organizzato dal Garante dei diritti della persona del Veneto, in collaborazione con i referenti territoriali, nominati dalle Aziende ULSS e dalle Conferenze dei Sindaci.
Al seminario odierno di apertura interverrà la stessa Garante, dott.ssa Mirella Gallinaro, con un focus su "Il tutore volontario del minore di età: l’esperienza del Veneto".

Il Corso, che si svolge interamente in modalità on line, si propone di formare persone disponibili ad assumere la tutela legale di bambini o adolescenti, i cui genitori siano deceduti o non siano nella condizione di esercitare le responsabilità genitoriali. Tra questi ci sono anche i minori stranieri che giungono in Italia soli ed entrano nel sistema di accoglienza gestito dalle istituzioni e dai servizi sociali.
L’obiettivo finale è quello di poter disporre di volontari motivati e competenti da segnalare all’Autorità giudiziaria deputata alla nomina dei tutori legali, quando ne faccia richiesta al Garante regionale.

FRA is looking for data collection and research services on fundamental rights issues in Sweden (FRANET).

FRANET(link is external) is the Agency’s multidisciplinary research network. It is composed of contractors in each EU Member State. Upon request, they provide relevant data to FRA on fundamental rights issues to facilitate the Agency’s comparative analyses.

More information is on FRA's website(link is external).

To participate, register your interest by email(link sends e-mail) by 7 May 2021 (17:00 CET).