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On the occasion of Human Rights Day, December 10, Initiative A 11 (Economic and Social Rights Initiative) presented a pair of ping pong rackets to the Serbian Government Ministers, Gordana Čomić and Darija Kisić Tepavčević. “It is better to play real ping pong with a colleague at the table, and not transfer responsibility for the economic and social rights of citizens from one ministry to another,” the 11 ministers told the ministers.
The ministers received a racket and a set of ping pong balls with the words: health, housing, education, social protection, work.
Initiative A 11 presented this sports material to the ministers in charge of human rights (Čomić) and of labor, employment, veterans and social affairs (Kisić Tepavčević), wanting to point out that the ministers in charge of these powers have so far transferred responsibility of economic and social rights. citizens from one to another, thus playing ping pong with our human rights.
“The right to work, to affordable housing, to timely and adequate treatment, to social protection if we are in danger, to education: these are basic economic and social rights that are also our human rights, guaranteed by the Constitution and laws, “said Initiative A11. on the occasion.
Source: A 11
In a letter sent to ministers, Initiative A 11 recalled that two years ago it asked the Government of Serbia to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which would allow Serbian citizens to protect their rights against the United Nations Committee. economic, social and cultural rights. The then Office for Human and Minority Rights, which was in charge of this issue, referred this initiative to the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans Affairs and Social Affairs, which rejected this proposal without a single word of explanation.
“What the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg represents for the protection of civil and political rights, the same represents the UN Committee on Economic and Social Rights for the protection of economic and social rights, and we believe that citizens Serbs are entitled to this level of international protection. It is not clear why the state of Serbia is denying its citizens this opportunity, “they say in Initiative A 11.
“In the hope that you will play ping pong with your colleague from the Serbian Government at the table, and not transferring responsibilities from one department to another, we are giving you a table tennis racket,” the Initiative letter reads A 11.
Along with this gift, the ministers also received the document “What does the signing and ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights bring us?” and Initiative A 11 offered assistance and cooperation to improve the protection of economic and social rights of Serbian citizens.
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