Human Rights in Serbia 2007
Human Rights in Serbia 2007

Summary/Abstract: The year 2007 was the first year in which the new Constitution of Serbia, adopted on 30 September 2006 and endorsed at the 28 - 29 October 2006 referendum, was applied. The Constitution had been adopted in a rush, with no public debate or opportunity for the experts to analyse and comment its provisions. Public reaction was fierce. Although it is still too early to give comprehensive assessments of the reach of the constitutional provisions qualified as problematic both by international and domestic experts, there is no doubt that these deficiencies can largely be attributed to the fact that the Constitution had not been put to any public debate before adoption. Although the Constitution was passed in a manner unusual for democratic countries, it indisputably comprises a much better catalogue of human rights than the previous Constitution of Serbia.

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