Human rights issues of minority communities in post-war Kosovo : successes and failures of the international administration and the provisional authorities

• Main Author: Karalić, Srdan
• Other Authors: Werkman, Kateřina
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-298625

The given thesis examines the issues of human rights of minority communities in Kosovo under the UN-led international administration. The human rights of minority communities, Serbs and Roma foremost, are assessed through four wide areas of issues distinctive for Kosovo: security and freedom of movement; displaced, return and property rights; cultural rights; and economic and social rights. The thesis presents and highlights the most pressing issues for minority communities in these four areas, aiming to construct a comprehensive analysis of their status in Kosovo for the past 12 years. The thesis also scrutinizes policies, strategies and actions of the international administration and, subsequently, the provisional authorities in respect to minority human rights. Special emphasis is placed on the discrepancies between the proclaimed and the achieved, as the best measure of the international community's level of success in Kosovo. The thesis concludes that Kosovo is the part of Europe where minority human rights are least respected and where the oppression of members of minority communities by majority Albanian population is widespread and systematic. Furthermore, the international administration and the provisional authorities were both unable and unwilling to prevent and punish major violations...