Report of the Protector of Citizens on the Presence of Women at Decision-Making
positions and Activities of Local Mechanisms for Gender Equality at Local SelfGovernment Units in Serbia;
Government, authorities of the autonomous province and authorities of local selfgovernment units should provide full exercise of rights of LGBTI persons in the field of
the freedom of expression and peaceful gathering, protection of their physical and mental
integrity, education, employment, health care, social protection, legal regulation of life
communities and legal consequences of adjustment (change) of sex and gender identity,
as well as continual implementation of measures and activities dedicated to raising of
public awareness on the necessity of the observance of rights of LGBTI persons;
Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs should, in cooperation with
local self-government units and civil society organizations, provide establishment of
support service for young LGBTI persons who were forced to leave their homes, because
their families rejected them after finding out about their sexual orientation and gender
identity;
Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Fund should take measures so as to
provide all women with accessibility of health care services at all levels of health
protection;
Ministry of Health should ensure acting upon all recommendations from the Special
Report of the Protector of Citizens on Reproductive Health of the Roma females and
provide permanent engagement of female health mediators in the health care system of
the Republic of Serbia;
Ministry of Interior should prepare the amendment to the Law on Police which would
introduce explicit prohibition of the discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation;
Ministry of Interior should provide trainings for employees at police with the aim of
sensibilization to LGBTI persons, recognition of hate crimes, inter alia, on the basis of
sexual orientation and gender identity and adequate responding with the aim of
prevention of secondary victimization of LGBTI persons and identification of the attacker
of this person;
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development should provide
trainings for employees in educational institutions with regards to sensibilization to
LGBTI persons;
Ministry of Health and RHIF should provide adequate medicines for the maintenance
of hormonal status of trans persons;
Authorities of local self-government units should include explicitly at local action plans
LGBTI persons and prescribe measures for the improvement of the position of these
persons, as well as to allocate corresponding budget funds for these activities;
Ministry of Health should in cooperation with health care institutions remove problems
in the application of the Rulebook on the manner of issuing and form of certification of
the competent health care institution on the change of sex;
Ministry of Health should take measures with the aim of the implementation of the
program of de-pathologizing of trans identity, in compliance with the revision of the
International Disease Classification (IDC 11) of the World Health Organization in which
the transgender identity was removed from the list of mental diseases.
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