Press release

Although the proposal to set up a special committee to support the rights of non-heterosexual citizens was rejected by the Slovak Government on May 11, Deputy Premier for Human Rights and National ...

Today  the  world commemorates the 52nd Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. In 1950 the chinese People's Army confronted the Dalai Lama's army affirming the People's Republic of China...

Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities takes part in memorial service for Czech Senator Jiří Dienstbier, 73, who died January 8 in Prague after a long...

H. E. Andrzej Krawczyk, the Ambassador of the Polish Republic in the Slovak Republic ceremonially handed over a so-called Chopin´s passport to Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human...

Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities, Rudolf Chmel firmly condemns Iranian court decision sentencing the prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasri...

Throughout the Slovak Republic, the Population and Housing  Census is going to be conducted on 21 May 2011. The Statistical Office prepared the Census Sheets - in addition to the country's official...

Hungarian State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh during his visit to Bratislava expressed his thanks to Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and Na...

     On 10th of December 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The significant international commemoration marked each year on 10th December  k...

Conference programme on situation of the National Minorities Hotel Bôrik, Bratislava, 24th November 2010     Language and Identity  - Rights of the National Minorities in Slovakia and Europe ...

An informal working group meeting is taking place on Tuesday, 9th of November 2010 at 13:00, in the Government Office of the Slovak Republic where Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for H...

An informal seminar took place on Tuesday, 2nd of November 2010 at 14:00, in the Government Office of the Slovak Republic where Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and Nat...

Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities Rudolf Chmel received in his office Mr Josef Aregger, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Swiss Con...

Opinion of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's most important advisory body on constitutional matters and international law is clearly critical towards the Act on State Language, especia...

Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities Rudolf Chmel took part at the gala concert on occaison of the National Day of Hungary in Primate's Palace´s Hal...