In the period from February to May 2007, members of the HLC – Kosovo research team monitored if Article 4.4. of the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Governance in Kosovo and The Law on the Use of Language, which give guarantees to the members of minority communities in Kosovo that they would have education organized in their mother tongue, were implemented. On the basis of interviews conducted with the members of ethnic communities, teachers who teach in the languages of minorities, representatives of the local and central Kosovo institutions, analysis of the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Governance in Kosovo, Law on the Use of Language, Law on the Preschool Education, and the Law on Elementary and High School Education, the HLC – Kosovo wants to give a documented account regarding whether or not the guaranteed right of minorities to have education in their mother tongue is respected, to point to the obstacles that stand in the way of the complete implementation of this right, and give recommendations to the Kosovo institutions and UNMIK in order to have the situation considering the education of minority communities’ members in their mother tongue improved, thus enabling their complete integration into society in Kosovo .
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The report relates to the period January-December 2006, coinciding with the Vienna talks on the future status of Kosovo between the Serbian Government and Kosovo Negotiations Team. Given the circumstances, the monitoring of respect for the human rights of ethnic communities is an activity of the utmost importance.
The report relates to the period January-December 2006, coinciding with the Vienna talks on the future status of Kosovo between the Serbian Government and Kosovo Negotiations Team. Given the circumstances, the monitoring of respect for the human rights of ethnic communities is an activity of the utmost importance.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is actively helping countries formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia establish the rule of law and accept the legacy of their past marked by mass human rights abuses committed during armed conflicts on their territories, in order to prevent the recurrence of such crimes, establish the criminal responsibility of perpetrators, and serve justice.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) supports post-Yugoslav societies in the promotion of the rule of law and acceptance of the legacy of mass human rights violations, and therefore in establishing the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators, serving justice, and preventing recurrence.