MODE OF EXERCISE OF THE NATIONAL MINORITIES RIGHTS IN SERBIA
MODE OF EXERCISE OF THE NATIONAL MINORITIES RIGHTS IN SERBIA

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Government/Political systems, Culture and social structure , State/Government and Education, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: Serbia; rights and freedoms; national minorities; political parties; native language; culture; education; Vojvodina; Central Serbia; public life; national structure;
Summary/Abstract: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance from Novi Sad in the course of August and September 2002 carried out a research on the status of collective rights of national minorities in Serbia. That research covered 36 municipalities in Vojvodina and 16 municipalities in Central Serbia, that is municipalities inhabited by the largest number of national minorities according to the 1991 census.7 The goal of research was to establish the level of enforcement of collective rights of national minorities as prescribed by the domestic legislation and international standards. The research covered guaranteed collective rights of national minorities in the following areas: 1. The right to use mother tongue and alphabet 2. The right to education in mother tongue 3. The right to nurturing national culture and tradition 4. The right to information in mother tongue 5. The right to effective participation of national minorities in public life. This research was carried out by the two teams. One worked in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, while the other worked in Central, or more precisely, Eastern Serbia, Sandžak and South Serbia. Their work was divided in view of high concentration of minorities in those areas.

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