Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is the highest law in the province in accordance with the Constitution of Serbia

Constitution of Serbia

The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia is Serbia's fundamental law. The current constitution was approved in a constitutional referendum, held from on 28–29 October 2006...

. Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

 is an autonomous province of the citizens who live in it, established on the basis of specific national, historic, cultural and other characteristics of the area, as multinational, multicultural

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

 and multi-confessional European region.

Statute articles

Article 1.

Vojvodina is an autonomous province of the citizens that live in the province, within the Republic of Serbia.

Vojvodina is a region in which the 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

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

, minority rights

Minority rights

The term Minority Rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups...

, the use of the minority languages and alphabets, and the banning of capital punishment

Capital punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

 and human cloning

Human cloning

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. It does not usually refer to monozygotic multiple births nor the reproduction of human cells or tissue. The ethics of cloning is an extremely controversial issue...

. In the official use is the Serbian Language

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

 and Cyrillic alphabet and minority languages Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

, Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

, Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

, Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 and Ruthenian

Rusyn language

Rusyn , also known in English as Ruthenian, is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language and it has its own ISO 639-3 code; others treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian...

 and their respective alphabets, in accordance with the law and the provincial Assembly decision. Application of the Serbian Latin alphabet in the organs and organizations of the AP Vojvodina Provincial Assembly shall be regulated in accordance with the decision law.

See also

• Vojvodina
  Vojvodina
  Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
  
  
• Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2004
  Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2004
  First round of the Vojvodina parliamentary election was held on September 19, 2004, at the same time when the local elections were held in the whole of Serbia ....
  
  
• Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2008
  Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2008
  Parliamentary elections were held for the unicameral Assembly of Serbia's northern Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on 11 May 2008, with a second round to be held on 25 May 2008...
  
  
• Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
  Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
  Vojvodina Autonomist Movement is a political movement in the Serbian province of Vojvodina that advocating more autonomy for Vojvodina within Serbia.-History:...
  
  
• Vojvodinian Academy of Sciences and Art

External links

• http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/index.php (Serbian, English)