The Deputy Protector of Citizens, Jelena Stojanović, stated today that this independent state institution will intensify its work in the coming period to protect the rights and best interests of the child, especially bearing in mind that according to the new Law on the Protector of Citizens, it has the position of a special body that protects, promotes and improves the rights of the child.
"The Protector of Citizens is a state institution in the highest international A status, which has been dealing with the protection of the rights and best interests of the child for 15 years. Considering that the new law also gave us the position of a special body that protects, promotes and improves the rights of the child, our efforts will be focused on intensifying the work in terms of prevention, the protection itself, but also the effectiveness of the implementation of that protection", Stojanović said at a lecture to students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade.
Stojanović conveyed to the students certain examples from the practice of this institution in the protection of children's rights, as well as systemic and individual omissions of competent authorities, the removal of which the Protector of Citizens requested through his recommendations and opinions addressed to those authorities and competent institutions.
The Protector of Citizens very carefully monitors and will continue to monitor the work of all competent authorities responsible for the protection of children's rights and to respond urgently to all omissions in work with the aim of providing children, as the most vulnerable category of the population, with the highest level of rights protection, stated Stojanović.
The Deputy Protector of Citizens introduced the students, as part of the Legal Clinic, the topic of which was family law and the protection of children's rights, to the powers, working methods and competences of the Protector of Citizens, especially the new competences assigned to him by the Law on the Protector of Citizens adopted in November 2021.