{"id":18683,"date":"2025-04-16T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:11:51","slug":"commissioner-for-protection-of-equality-recommends-immediate-suspension-of-the-competition-and-creation-of-mural-of-nebojsa-pavkovic-in-cuprija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/commissioner-for-protection-of-equality-recommends-immediate-suspension-of-the-competition-and-creation-of-mural-of-nebojsa-pavkovic-in-cuprija\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner for Protection of Equality  Recommends Immediate Suspension of the Competition and Creation of Mural of Neboj\u0161a Pavkovi\u0107 in \u0106uprija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a formal recommendation dated March 24, 2025, the Commissioner cited concerns that the mural could incite hatred and discrimination, particularly against members of the Albanian ethnic minority in Serbia. The Commissioner emphasized that glorifying a person convicted of serious violations of international humanitarian law\u2014currently serving a long prison sentence\u2014goes against the mission and values of public cultural institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Commissioner further stated that such actions risk retraumatizing victims and their families, and could worsen interethnic relations in the country. The recommendation falls under the Commissioner\u2019s authority outlined in Article 33, Item 9 of the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision also referenced a previous case in which the Belgrade Municipal Inspection in 2021 ordered the removal of a mural honoring Ratko Mladi\u0107, another convicted war criminal. After a campaign of mapping murals and graffiti of Mladic in 10 towns in Serbia, in March 2023 YIHR filed over 300 requests for the removal of murals dedicated to war criminals\u2014over 250 of which were in Belgrade alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Commissioner based their recommendation on the final judgment from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which in January 2014 convicted Pavkovi\u0107 and three other senior officials of Serbia and the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo during 1999. YIHR included that ruling in their complaint. The Commissioner also pointed to European legal standards, which view the glorification of convicted war criminals through murals, statues, and street names as a form of denial and hate speech\u2014one that undermines international justice and dismisses the suffering of victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u0106uprija Cultural Institution has a deadline until May 2 to inform the Commissioner about steps taken to implement the recommended measures and ensure protection from discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read YIHR\u2019s complaint in BHS language from March 19 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250319-YIHR-Scan-Prituzba-zbog-diskriminacije-protiv-Ustanove-kulture-Cuprija-Final.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">], and the Commissioner\u2019s set of recommendations in BHS language from March 24 2025 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250410-YIHR-04-349-Poverenik-za-zastitu-ravnopravnosti-1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[here]<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a complaint filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality has recommended that the \u0106uprija Cultural Institution immediately suspend its mural competition dedicated to convicted war criminal Neboj\u0161a Pavkovi\u0107.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57,1502],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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