The Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is the highest legal document pertaining to the fundamental principles of
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...
, in accordance with the
Constitution of Serbia. The Statute was adopted by the
Assembly of Vojvodina on 18 October 2008, and later by the
National Assembly of Serbia
The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The a ...
on 30 November 2009.
Statute articles
Article 1.
''Vojvodina is an autonomous province of the citizens who live in it, within the Republic of Serbia.''
''Vojvodina is a region in which traditional multiculturalism is preserved, and other European principles and values.''
''AP Vojvodina is an inseparable part of Serbia.''
Article 6. National rights:
''In Vojvodina, the Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Croats, Montenegrins, Romanians, Roma, Bunjevci, Ruthenians and Macedonians, as well as other numerically smaller national communities that live in it, are equal in exercising their rights.''
Among the statute's 70 other articles are guarantees of
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
,
minority rights
Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.
Civil-rights movements ...
, the use of the minority languages and alphabets, and the banning of
capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
and
human cloning
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural concepti ...
. In official use is the
Serbian Language
Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and K ...
and Cyrillic alphabet and minority languages
Hungarian,
Slovak,
Croatian,
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
*** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...
and
Ruthenian and their respective alphabets, in accordance with the law and the provincial Assembly decision.
See also
*
Politics of Vojvodina
*
Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
Vojvodina Autonomist Movement (Serbian language, Serbian: Војвођански аутономашки покрет), or colloquially the ''Autonomists'' (Serbian language, Serbian: Аутономаши) is a political movement in the Serbian p ...
*
Administrative divisions of Serbia
References
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External links
Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina(in Serbian)
Politics of Vojvodina