Jasmina Miković is an honours law graduate of the International Law and International Relations Department (Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade) with further professional development in the field of human rights and management. Jasmina was appointed director of the Child Rights Centre on 10 December 2019.
Jasmina acquired 20 years of professional experience by working in the Norwegian Refugee Council and NGO Praxis, focusing on the protection of human rights of marginalized groups (refugees, IDPs, the Roma minority, victims of domestic violence) in the areas of child rights, antidiscrimination, gender equality, public administration, migration, status and socioeconomic rights.
Jasmina is the President of the Steering Committee of the Network of Organizations for Children of Serbia (MODS) and since February 2014 has been representing MODS in the Eurochild’s National Partner Networks (NPN) Group, which is committed to achieving the common goal of putting the rights and welfare of children at the heart of policy-making at the national and European level. In the period from 2017 to 2019, Jasmina chaired the meetings of the Eurochild’s NPN Group. She is also a member of the Council of the Rights of the Child of the Government of Serbia and the Working Group for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, managed by the National Convention on the EU.
As a ChildHub resource person, Jasmina has participated in the regular meetings of the RRC Child Protection Hub, as part of the project coordinated by the Center for Youth Integration in Serbia.
Jasmina participated also in numerous conferences and other expert meetings in the country and abroad, as well as in the work of various advocacy and thematic working groups on preparing thematic and alternative reports related to child rights, access to status and socioeconomic rights by marginalized groups, protection against discrimination, etc.
Jasmina played volleyball professionally for 11 years.