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Skender v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Skender v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia    [  ] SKENDER v. the FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Prohibition of discrimination – inadmissible Article 14 Right to education – inadmissible Protocol No. 1, Article 2 Impossibility of sending children to school in another district where education in the minority language is provided On  November  a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unani- mously declared inadmissible the application in the case of Skender v. the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia . Summary of the facts The applicant is a national of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of Turkish origin. He has two daughters whom he wished to send to a Turkish-speak- ing school situated in a other district than the one where they lived, as the school of their own district did not provide teaching in Turkish. According to the Primary Education Act, pupils should attend the State primary school of their place of residence. In February  the applicant asked the Turkish-speaking school to admit his elder daughter. He received no answer and complained, allegedly on two succes- sive occasions, to the competent authority. He started proceedings before the Su- preme Court. The school, at this stage, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Rights Case Digest Brill

Skender v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Human Rights Case Digest , Volume 12 (11-12): 1117 – Jan 1, 2001

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0965-934X
eISSN
1571-8131
DOI
10.1163/157181301401748388
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Abstract

   [  ] SKENDER v. the FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Prohibition of discrimination – inadmissible Article 14 Right to education – inadmissible Protocol No. 1, Article 2 Impossibility of sending children to school in another district where education in the minority language is provided On  November  a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unani- mously declared inadmissible the application in the case of Skender v. the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia . Summary of the facts The applicant is a national of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of Turkish origin. He has two daughters whom he wished to send to a Turkish-speak- ing school situated in a other district than the one where they lived, as the school of their own district did not provide teaching in Turkish. According to the Primary Education Act, pupils should attend the State primary school of their place of residence. In February  the applicant asked the Turkish-speaking school to admit his elder daughter. He received no answer and complained, allegedly on two succes- sive occasions, to the competent authority. He started proceedings before the Su- preme Court. The school, at this stage,

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Human Rights Case DigestBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2001

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