Volume IV, Issue II (April 2006) - Columbus School of Law

STUDENT ARTICLESINTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PROTECTION OFTHE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES AND THE STATUS OF THE MACEDONIANMINORITIES IN THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIESBY SLAVICA CHUBRIC© Central European University November 30, 2005Table of ContentsExecutive summary.................................................................................................................p.3Introduction.............................................................................................................................p.4Chapter 1: Overview of International instruments relevant for the protection of minorityrights........................................................................................................................................p.61.1 Protection of minority rights in the UN system................................................................p.61.1.1 Article 27 of ICCPR...................................................................................................p.61.1.2 The UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religiousand Linguistic Minorities..........................................................................p.71.1.3 International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination....p.81.2 Protection of minority rights in Europe...........................................................................p.81.2.1 Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities...........................p.81.2.2 European Charter for Regional or Minority languages.............................................p101.2.3 European Convention for Human Rights..................................................................p.111.2.4 1990 Document of the Copenhagen meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimensionof theCSCE........................................................................................................................p.11Chapter 2: A note on the "Macedonian question" on theBalkan...................................................................................................................................p.13Chapter 3: The Macedonian minority in Albania.................................................................p.163.1 Legal framework for the protection of minority rights...................................................p.163.2 Implementation of minority rights..................................................................................p.17Chapter 4: The Macedonian minority in Greece...................................................................p.214.1 Legal framework for protection of minority rights.........................................................p.214.2 Implementation of minority rights..................................................................................p.234.2.1 Citizenship, repatriation and restoration of property..................................................p.274.3 Case law of the European Court for Human Rights related to the Macedonian minority inGreece...................................................................................................................................p.304.3.1 The Case of Sidiropoulos and others v . Greece..........................................................p.314.3.2 The case of Ouranio Toxo and Others v. Greece..........................................................p.33Chapter 5: The Macedonian minority in Bulgaria.................................................................p.375.1. Legal framework for the protection of minority rights...................................................p.375.2 Implementation of minority rights...................................................................................p.4037