MINELRES: Slovakia: CLA-Kalligram Website Update

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Original sender: Balazs Jarabik <jarbal@kalligram.sk>


New materials on the website of the Center for Legal
Analyses-Kalligram Foundation, Slovakia at www.cla.sk:

CLA-Update: Current State of the Proposal of the Anti-Discrimination
Legislation

The aim of the memorandum is to give a short update on the current
situation with the anti-discrimination legislation in Slovakia. The
Slovak Parliament on June 2002 based on proposal of Christian Democratic
Movement (KDH) changed the program of the parliament to exclude the
proposed draft of Act on Equal Treatment prepared by the Section of
Human Rights and Minorities of the Office of the Government and Center
for Legal Analyses-Kalligram Foundation. Therefore the Parliament did
not discuss at all the proposed anti-discrimination legislation. The Act
on Equal Treatment was on hold by change the program of the Parliament
and before the parliamentary elections hold on September 20-21, 2002,
was not passed or discussed at all in parliament.

CLA-Analyses: Comparative Analyses on the Preambula of the Constitutions
of the Visegrad Countries

The preambula of the constitution is usually not a topic for legal
analyses, legal mind are attracted by more exact things, such as laws or
contracts. However the preambulas - first of all in Central and Eastern
Europe - can serve to enlight the state of the society and serve to
better understand of the litter of the constitutions. The aim of the
analyses is to compare the the preambulas of the constitutions of
Visegrad countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - in
order to find common points and understanding and points out the
diferences as well.

Publication: Civic and Minority Rights Textbook

The textbook entitled "Civil and Minority Rights" issued recently by the
Kalligram Foundation and Lilium Aurum Publishing House is used from
September 1, 2002 in the secondary grammar schools with Hungarian
teaching language in Slovakia. The textbook was prepared by the lawyers
of the Center for Legal Analyses-Kalligram Foundation with the help of
external experts. Available in Hungarian.