Therefore, the Protector of Citizens presented the opinion that new institution in the protection of child rights in Serbia could not solve the problems and challenges in the exercise of child rights to which the Protector of Citizens has been indicating for years, but it would be one institution more which would also indicate to them. GENDER EQUALITY The authorities acted upon systemic recommendations issued by the Protector of Citizens in 2018 after the examination of 30 cases of femicide, domestic and partner relation violence and abuse and neglect of children confirmed numerous individual and systemic shortcomings, such as inadequate cooperation of the authorities competent for the suppression of domestic violence, inadequate risk assessment, implementation of measures which do not correspond confirmed and assessed risks, lack of exchange of information, failure to recognize violence, failure to take measures and activities which the authorities are obliged to take. Children present during domestic violence are not treated as victims of violence, due to which the measures which are prescribed for the protection of victims are not taken.10 The Administration for the Enforcement of Penal Sanctions of the Ministry of Justice implemented the supervision at the institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions and introduced them with the content of the recommendations of the Protector of Citizens and the implementation of these recommendations will be followed by the Department for the inspection of the Administration during the conducting of supervision. The Administration instructed the institutions to have a more intensive cooperation and exchange of information with area centers for social work and competent police departments and stations. The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs issued an order to directors of centers for social work to provide and experts of the centers for social work in the procedures of protection against domestic violence to adopt and apply standards for professional work to which the Protector of Citizens indicated. This Ministry, in accordance with the recommendations of the Protector of Citizens and on the basis of the analysis of the data on the number of vacant job positions, submitted the Proposal of the Conclusion to the Ministry of Finance and the Government Commission for providing consent for new employment and additional work engagement at the centers for social work and institutions of social protection, but employment did not take place. The Republic Institute for Social Protection, pursuant to the recommendations of the Protector of Citizens, planned in reporting period to implement trainings with regards to domestic violence but with the focus on the protection of children from domestic violence, abuse and neglect. The Criminal Investigations Directorate of the Ministry of Interior issued the instruction decree passed in 2019 to all police departments and organizational units at the seat of the Ministry with guidelines for actions of police officers in the cases of domestic violence. The health inspection of the Ministry of Health announced the conducting of supervision at all health care institutions included in recommendations. In the Evaluation report regarding the assessment of measures taken by the authorities of the Republic of Serbia with respect to all the aspects of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, the Expert Group of the Council of Europe on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) recommended to Serbian authorities to, inter alia, take special care that Recommendations available at: https://www.ombudsman.rs/index.php/2012-02-07-14-03-33/5985-u-vrd-nipr-pus-i-u-r-du-n-dl-znih-u-bl-s-i-z-sh-i-zr-v-u-sluc-vi-p-r-dicn-g-i-p-r-n-rs-g-n-silj. 10 -9-