Rwandan ambassador to Netherlands, Her Excellency Immaculee Uwanyiligira, visiting Peace Institute in Slovenia
Rwandan ambassador to Netherlands, Her Exc. Immaculee Uwanyiligira, is visiting Slovenia for the first time. Among others she visited also the Peace Institute...
last change: 2012.05.18
The Erased: Remedying Human Rights Violations
Project started:
2010.01.01
Project finished: project not finished
Project leader: Neža Kogovšek Šalamon
Collaborators:
Theme: Human rights
Purpose and goals:
Project finished: project not finished
Project leader: Neža Kogovšek Šalamon
Collaborators:
- Aleksandar Todorović
- Brankica Petković
- Jelka Zorn
- Katarina Vučko
- Maja Ladić
- Sara Pistotnik
- Uršula Lipovec Čebron
Theme: Human rights
Purpose and goals:
In 1992, 25.671 people who had legal rights to reside in Slovenia were unlawfully deprived of their legal status in Slovenia. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia with its decisions no. U-I-284/94 of 1999 and no. U-I-246/02 of 2003 found the deprivation of their legal status unlawful, and the Aliens Act that the authorities invoked as a legal basis for this measure of erasure unconstitutional. The Court ordered the legislative to remedy the unconstitutionality in a time limit of six months. The decision of the Constitutional Court, however, remained unimplemented for seven years. The goal of the project is to keep reminding the authorities about their constitutional and international obligations to respect the decisions of their highest court and to remedy the violations of human rights, raise awareness of the public about the gravity of the consequences of the erasure and assist the erased people in regulation of the their legal status and other status-related issues.
Implementation:
1. Monitoring of the application of the amendments to the Act Regulating the Legal Status of Cituizens of Other Republics of the Former SFRY in the Republic of Slovenia, and alert the authorities about the encountered shortcomings.
2. Collection of data on circumstances of erasure and its consequences by conducting interviews with the erased people as well as writing and archiving their stories (by ensuring the protection of their personal data).
3. Offering free legal aid to the erased people and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings.
Raising awareness of the public, holding lectures and organizing public events on erasure, its consequences and its contextualization from the perspective of transition, migration, human rights law and constitutional law, nationalism, health, language position and emancipatory practices.
Partners:
2. Collection of data on circumstances of erasure and its consequences by conducting interviews with the erased people as well as writing and archiving their stories (by ensuring the protection of their personal data).
3. Offering free legal aid to the erased people and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings.
Raising awareness of the public, holding lectures and organizing public events on erasure, its consequences and its contextualization from the perspective of transition, migration, human rights law and constitutional law, nationalism, health, language position and emancipatory practices.
Amnesty International Slovenia
Unione forense per la tutella dei diritti dell'uomo (Italy)
Civil Initiative of Erased Activists
Sponsors:
Unione forense per la tutella dei diritti dell'uomo (Italy)
Civil Initiative of Erased Activists
Open Society Foundations