Međunarodna zaštita manjina
International Protection of Minorities

Summary/Abstract: »International protection of minorities«, »international legal protection of minorities«, or just »protection of minorities«, these are terms that evoke different feelings: nostalgic reminiscences and memories of horror, hope and apprehension; it is both an object of desire and of condemnation. Both the states and the minorities adopt different attitudes towards the idea of international protection of minorities. This should not be surprising because, besides the states with numerous minorities there are states without any significant minority; among the former there are states in which minorities enjoy all the facilities required for the preservation of their specificities, and there are states w here the majority tends to assimilate the minorities; there are states on whom international obligations were imposed with respect to minorities on their territory, and there are also minorities whose position has not been regulated either by international or by national legislation; there are states who have suffered from the destructive activity of minorities, but there are even m ore minorities who suffered from the majority...

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