Abstract
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The Minority issues, importance of focusing on language matters and the challenge from the classical minority protection system to new minority’s
The Language plays a central role in terms of economic opportunity and success, as the dominance of one language in a state will be
advantageous, in terms of access to and distribution of public resources, to individuals who have greater fluency in the official or majority tongue. Moreover, language is often of essence to the sentiments of community and culture, of tradition and ,, belonging’’.
As a result, any meance to, disrespect of or attack upon its use or existence may arouse strong emotions and constitutes a potential cause of conflict.
Because individuals most often cannot easily change their language, and because of language plays a prominent role as a marker of the community to which individuals have close ties, language becomes a signaling point, like race or religion, identifying those who are ,,different’’, hence potential targets for discrimination.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
On a more practical level, the application and the interpretation of these human rights are ,, tested’’ in the fields of education, public services, private and public media, and naturalization and citizenship in order to give a sense of how these rights can be translated in terms of real politic. An example of language ,,Violence’’ done by Serbs in Kosovo in order to discriminate language of majority in the education level. Discriminated Albanians in 1990 they continued their studies in private homes, not excepting a Serbian plan programs which appointed a discrimination of human rights. This will demonstrate that human rights can help to provide a flexible, realistic mechanism which can adapt to a variety of situations.
Finally, special consideration is given to the situation of indigenous peoples and what appears to be a growing consensus that they are entitled to greater sensitivity and consideration of the part of state authorities in language affairs, amongst other areas, because of their unique legal and political status. The problems involving minorities are among the most pre-occupying issues of contemporary international relations, and an important subject of international human rights law. Such problems pose challenges for social and political developments within states, between states and for international relations in general. In this regard, the conceptual and practical resolution of the minority problematique has attracted broad interest for the increasingly interdependent States of Europe committed to democratic governance under rule of law, based on the full and equal respect for human rights.
Prior to 1945 the most conscious and comprehensive attempt to protect minorities through international legal means were the minority treaties adopted at the end of the first- World War and overseen by the League of Nations. This system of minority protection treaties focused fundamentally on the protection of ‘nationalities’ rather than individuals. Therefore, in 1945 the United Nations decided to follow a different approach. That approach was to emphasize ,,universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.’’
This is to say that focus and emphasis of protection was clearly on the individual and, in so far, the minority rights were considered as part of human rights.
CONCLUSION
Thus in the view of the developing effective standards for the protection of persons belonging to minorities, objective criteria to determine the existence of a minority in a given state, are yet to be established. In this regard, it is clear that remains much to be done to the benefit of persons belonging to minorities and peaceful international relations as a whole.
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