Posted on 02/26/2008 2:44:30 AM PST by markomalley
New York, Feb 25, 2008 / 07:11 pm (CNA).- A draft constitution for the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo would remove all legal protection for unborn children and undermine marriage, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reports.
Article 25 of the draft document on the “Right to Life” states that “every individual enjoys the right to life from birth,” while Article 26 grants "the right to make decisions in relation to reproduction in accordance with the rules and procedures set forth by law" and secures for each citizen "the right to have control over his/her body in accordance with law."
The draft constitution also prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The English version of the draft article “Right to Marriage and Family” omits mentioning men and women, saying, "Based on free will, everyone enjoys the right to marry and the right to have a family."
The non-governmental organization Public International Law and Policy Group initially authored the draft constitution in 2004. Tufts University professor Bruce Hitchner, one of the draft’s authors, told C-FAM that the constitution had generally maintained its original form. After the organization drafted the document, it was given to the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe. Hitchner said that European lawyers evaluated and assessed the document, with Americans working on it “quietly.”
The Venice Commission, which was established in 1990 to help former communist countries in the transition to democracy, had given the document to the Constitutional Commission of Kosovo. The chairman of the commission, Hajredin Kuci, said that commission members would visit municipalities and organize meetings in Kosovo to receive public comment on the document before March 26, the 120-day deadline mandated by the UN Secretary General.
The draft constitution also cedes the interpretation of social norms to international human rights bodies at the United Nations, such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Protocols. The committees monitoring these treaties have been criticized for interpreting the documents to include abortion “rights” and other controversial entitlements specifically excluded from the by their mandate.
The draft constitution states that it will rely on the European Court of Human Rights and other international bodies to oversee the implementation of human rights.
CONSTITUTION OF KOSOVOSee Sharia Law.
I just met a Serbian guy who came here six years ago for the safety of his children. He says he was a school teacher there, and also has written books and has interests in journalism. I asked him if he considered himself conservative or liberal, and he told me definately liberal, because that’s what makes the rest of Europe “great”. He told me conservatives want to force everyone to believe in the same religion, “like communism”, and he has no use for religion. He was raised Catholic but “doesn’t believe in it anymore.” He says he likes the American soldiers being there, because they bring order and safety. And he said muslims are taking over.
Wow, only here six years and already he's on the Liberal Talking Points mailing list!. I guess Liberal morons can come from anywhere, though, can't they?
“Wow, only here six years and already he’s on the Liberal Talking Points mailing list!. I guess Liberal morons can come from anywhere, though, can’t they?”
I’ll give him credit for being a hard worker, anyway. The foreigners are always the best workers. He just doesn’t understand that it’s conservatism that made this country the place he ran to for safety.
I wonder if they’ll address the Kosovo policy of destroying ancient Christian churches?
Thanks for ping!
Who wrote this cracked constitution anyway—some Euroweenie like the Belgian woman I met who was in charge of electrical power in Kosovo, but just blamed the Serbs for why she couldn’t provide reliable electrical power?
Bear in mind that ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ have completely different connotations in Europe. Euro Liberals are far more rabid/left-leaning than the U.S.-based ones, and conservatives are, without any proof or merit, referred to as ‘fascists.’ All you need in order to be labeled a fascist is to be, say, pro-life. Or anti-immigration. Or anti-big spending. Europe’s damned.
If he is (or was) a Roman Catholic, he may have been from Serbia, but he isn't "a Serb". The definition of "a Serb" is that they are Serbian Eastern Orthodox Christians -- or came from those who were.
Tear gas fired at Serb protesters
Posted By Dusan Stojanovic
Posted 6 hours ago
Police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of Serbs hurling rocks during a protest against Kosovo’s independence at a border crossing near the capital Monday.
Some 150 Serbs chanting “Kosovo is Serbia!” pelted ethnic Albanian police with stones and bottles that they brought with them in a truck to the crossing about 30 kilometres northeast of Pristina, Kosovo, police spokesman Veton Elshani said.
Nineteen officers were injured, one seriously, before NATO peacekeepers helped bring the situation under control, he said.
The vast majority of Kosovo’s population is ethnic Albanian. Serbs represent just 10 per cent of the region’s two million people, but they view Kosovo as the cradle of their culture and of their Orthodox Christian faith.
In the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, about 2,000 Kosovo Serbs rallied Monday, as they have every day since the territory’s ethnic Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia on Feb. 17.
Local ethnic Serb leaders denounced the independence declaration. A few protesters set fire to European Union flags and burned a poster showing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with Serbia’s pro-western president, Boris Tadic.
Kosovo had remained a province of Serbia even though it was administered by the United Nations and NATO after 1999, when NATO air strikes ended former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic’s crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists, which killed 10,000 people.
Tadic opposes Kosovo’s independence, but advocates maintaining economic and political ties with the United States and other western countries despite their recognition of Kosovo’s statehood. Serbia’s hardline prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, in contrast, advocates severing relations with all states that recognize Kosovo as independent.
In Belgrade, Kostunica reiterated that the Kosovo state “does not exist” as far as Serbia is concerned. He said the Serbian government would seek to “maintain jurisdiction” in Serb-populated areas of Kosovo and urged nations to rescind their recognition of Kosovo.
“There will be no stability in the region and the world until that decision is annulled,” he said.
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=918006
of course. Remember the state department created this false state. The same state department who condoned a homosexual ambassador who turned the US embassy into a recreational sex house.
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