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Department for the Protection of the Rights of National, Religious and Other Minorities

Department for the Protection of the Rights of National, Religious and Other Minorities receives and registers complaints for violation of rights and freedoms of the members of national, religious and other minorities, monitors functioning of the legislative, executive and judicial authorities relevant for realization of the rights of national, religious and other minorities, and to cooperate with other departments.

Department for the Protection of the Rights of National, Religious and Other Minorities shall pay special attention to:

• Promoting rights determined in the Convention on Protection of National Minorities and other international standards regulating minority rights;
• Analyzing legal regulations that treat rights of minorities and state in the field, aimed at initiating changes of legal provisions and their harmonization with international standards of human rights;
• Protecting members of national minorities: Albanian, Montenegrin, Czechs, Italians, Jews, Hungarian, Macedonian, Germans, Poles, Roma, Rumanians, Russians, Ruthenians, Slovaks, Slovenians, Turks, Ukrainians and others, fulfilling conditions from Article 3 (1) of the Law on Protection of Rights of National Minorities in BiH;
• Removing obstacles for consistent application of international conventions ratified by BiH.

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