German NGOs' Visit: Minority Position - An Ever Current Issue

After the talk to the European Commission expert mission two days ago, Aniko Muskinja Heinrich and Eva Vukasinovic, the Provincial Ombudswoman and her minority rights protection Deputy, talked to the representatives of German human rights NGOs yesterday.

Aniko Muskinja Heinrich introduced the NGO activists to the notion, history and establishment  of the ombudsman institution in Vojvodina and Serbia, along with the specific organization, structure, mandate and activities of the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman. In her introductory address, Eva Vukasinovic referred the German guests to the most notable laws regulating minority rights, the national councils' concept, as well as the issues faced by minorities in their human rights exercise.

The representatives of German human rights NGOs were particularly interested in political organization of minorities, the national councils and the Coalition of Jewish Municipalities in Serbia, posting multilingual name plaques on institutions, authorities' and public buildings, education in minority languages, as well as teaching and learning Serbian as non-mother tongue in schools.