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Námestie slobody 1
813 70 Bratislava
Tel.: +421 2 572 95 318 , 322
Fax: +421 2 524 91 647
E-mail: vicepremier@vlada.gov.sk
Contact for media:
+421 2 57295 186
Conference Language and Identity
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
The conference is organized by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities Rudolf Chmel in order to put the current status of minority rights of native minorities into the framework of European standards, to discuss the possibilities of further development with Slovak and European professionals and increase awareness about European practices among Slovak policy and decision makers. The two panels of the conference – Legal status of traditional national minorities and Language rights of National Minorities - featuring recognized local and European experts will shed more lights on the practices of Slovakian and European minority rights.
Venue: Hotel Bôrik, Bôrik 15, Bratislava
Date: 24 November 2010, starting at 8:30
1st. Session: Legal status of traditional national minorities
09:00 Opening address
Mr Rudolf Chmel, Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities
09:30
Mr Alexander Bröstl, former member of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia, former member of the monitoring committee of CoE- ECRML, Faculty of Law, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
10:00
Ms Jarmila Lajčáková, Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture, Bratislava
10:35
Mr Jan Diedrichsen, Federal Union of European Nationalities, Director, Flensburg
10:55
Ms Eugenie Trützschler von Falkenstein, Stiftung Ettersberg, Weimar
11:15
Ms Zuza Kumanová, association In minorita, Bratislava
11:30
Mr Mikuláš Mušinka, Association of Ukrainists in Slovakia, chairman, Prešov
11:45
Mr Zoltán Bara, Roundtable of Hungarians in Slovakia, spokesperson, Šamorín
Discussion
2nd. Session: Language rights of national minorities
13:30
Mr Pavol Holländer, Constitutional Court of Czech Republic, vicechairman, Brno
14:00
Mr Jose Arraiza, OSCE, Senior Legal Adviser, The Hague
14:30
Juraj Dolník, Department of Slovak Language, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava
14:50
Ms Zsuzsanna Lampl, Faculty of Central European Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
15:20
Tímea Tóth, Student network – Diákhálózat, FM Comenius University, Bratislava
16:00
Mr Ivan Bandurič, Association of Rusyns in Slovakia, Bardejov
16:15
Slavo Ondrejovič, Ľudovit Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Discussion
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Contact:
Árpád Sidó, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
tel.: +421 2/ 57295 186 arpad.sido@vlada.gov.sk