{"id":20791,"date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/maja-bjelos-participated-in-the-osce-human-dimension-implementation-meeting\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:39:31","slug":"maja-bjelos-participated-in-the-osce-human-dimension-implementation-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/maja-bjelos-participated-in-the-osce-human-dimension-implementation-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Maja Bjelo\u0161 participated in the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tDuring the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society noted that OSCE participating States now better understand the need to recruit more women law enforcement officers and help them to advance in their careers, but also that women police officers often face discrimination in pay and promotion, do not receive the job related benefits to which they are entitled and suffer from the lack of effective policies and procedures to protect them against sexual harassment or assault on the job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t&#8220;The current situation is that according to the publicly available data, not one case of gender discrimination in the Serbian police was recorded. BCSP has complained to the Commissioner for Protection of Equality\u2019s to correct gender-based discrimination in education at Criminal Police Academy, but in addition, it is necessary to strengthen the internal oversight mechanisms of the Ministry of Interior and the police to deal with this issue&#8221;, pointed out May Bjelos.<\/div>\n<p>\tThis event entailed a discussion of the internal and external mechanisms that exist, or should exist, within police structures in order to ensure that grievances filed by women and men working in the police are properly addressed. Such grievances usually include gender-based discrimination in pay and advancement, curtailed benefits and rights such as absence of or limited maternity or paternity leave, no policies or procedures to protect against sexual harassment or assault on the job, and also the manner in which the police adhere to every-day security needs of women in the community, such as violence against women.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General oversight mechanisms in Serbia and the need for internal and external oversight mechanisms for the police in specific were the topics on which BCSP researcher Maja Bjelos spoke at a side event during the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM), held on 24 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8596,8598,8591],"tags":[264,3231,6445,7115,5858,7082,5824,6442,6444,7088,6443,7843,7769,7557,10175,7555,4991,7732,7461,10365],"vest_saopstenje":[9454],"coauthors":[164,8671],"class_list":["post-20791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oversight","category-police","category-serbian-security-policy","tag-264","tag-bjelos","tag-dimension","tag-europe","tag-event","tag-external","tag-general","tag-human","tag-implementation","tag-mechanisms","tag-meeting","tag-operation","tag-organization","tag-oversight","tag-participated","tag-researcher","tag-security","tag-september","tag-serbia","tag-spoke","vest_saopstenje-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20791"},{"taxonomy":"vest_saopstenje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vest_saopstenje?post=20791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}